First and foremost I have to wish my now 8 year old daughter a belated Happy Birthday! We had a weekend of celebrations! Friday night was Lainie's good friend Maggie's 8th b-day and she went to her slumber party. Saturday morning Chris went and picked her up and took her for a special morning with daddy-they went to the Galleria and went to build-a-bear (i made her promise that if she "made" another stuffed animal she would have to come home and choose 2 from her collection to give away to a child who is not so fortunate to have a gagillion stuffed build-a-bears...she agreed and came home with a pink monkey. When she walked in the door we surprised her! We had planned a family surprise brunch for 
her-she was a little overwhelmed, but later she told me it was the best day of her life!
Her old mp3 player bit the dust so we got her an ipod shuffle, but her big gift was given to her over Christmas break when we completely transformed her pastel toddler room into a big girl room....
sorry, the color in that 2nd to last pic is not so good....anyway she loves it and i actually took these pics before we had everything up on the walls (as you can see tucked behind the dresser) and her laundry put away- will you look at her doorknob on her closet...yep...a coach purse...a very generous xmas/bday gift given to her by her aunt choe (nichole)...i am still trying to get over it, considering I don't even have a coach purse! So, her actual birthday was on the 18th-sunday, and since monday was MLK day and there was no school-we talked her out of a huge party like she usually has and into a quaint slumber party. although I'm not so sure how quaint it was...there ended up being 9 giggly girls at ourhouse from 5 pm-10 am. 
For her surprise brunch I ordered the most delicious cupcakes (the chocolate buttercream and pink polka dot) from the cakery and decided that I would order the princess crown cookies (since I had never tried them) for her slumber party-they were just about as delicious as the cupcakes!-molly thank you for introducing us to The Cakery! I thought it only appropriate to surround her princess crown cookie on her tier with faux diamond rings! I had them change into jammies before singing happy birthday and then had them retire to sleeping bags for a viewing of Mamma Mia-requested by Lainie-in the end it turned into a giant dance party!
Ella (here with Lainie) gave Lainie a recyclable grocery bag with a vegetarian cookbook and the ingredients for a recipe for her birthday and Lainie was so excited to get to cooking! This was her first creation-sunrise lemonade_thank you ella for the cookbook-we hope it will expand our menus!And last but not least....Lainie now has glasses! I think they're pretty cute! Very chic!
Happy Birthday to our sweet Lainie-girl! You are growing up way too fast! You are such a little lady now and we love you so much!
And now that I have made this blog all about you, I'll have to work my way back to the holidays in my next blog-I want to go and see what dress Michelle Obamam chose for the Inaugural Ball!
1 comment:
Happy Belated Birthday Lainie! Kayeligh loves your new room, and I love the glasses. I am thinking I need to update mine since I have had these since Kayleigh was born.
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