July 6, 2012... Elaina Claire turns 5 years old. It was a very fun day. Another year has come and gone. I really can't believe it. I am happy that she is at such a fun age but it makes me so very sad - 5 is such a big number. I say that every year but it's true. Her birthday party was not until the 7th (more to come on that) but the day of, we spent some time with just her doing what she wanted to do (mostly). The day started off with swimming (her favorite past time). Since we no longer live on our neighborhood with the pool, we tried out the Karns pool. I never had a reason to try it before because we had a pool accessible. I have heard that it was pretty great - and, turns out.... it was pretty great. Elaina and I enjoyed it a lot.
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| They have a couple of slides that dump into the 2 1/2 foot area so she went down this thing about 100 times... literally. She loved it. I loved watching her |
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| They also have a kiddie pool/splash pad area that is pretty great.... |
Next stop..... Ingles to buy her some cupcakes to take to her class for a little happy birthday party there. While there, she said she wanted a lunchable so we ate one at the Ingles deli area....Random, but it was nice. We just ate and chatted.
Cupcakes were bought and we headed over to her school for some cupcakes with her school pals. It was a small crowd because of the holiday...but it was still fun.
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| The girls.... |
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| The boys.... |
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| The birthday girl.... |
Next, we went home to get Daddy (he had to work all day :( ). But, he was home for the evening festivities and we were glad about that. We then went to Build-A-Bear at the birthday girls request...
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| Stuffing her bear of choice... |
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| Preparing the "heart" |
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| Fluffing the bear... |
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| Naming and getting the bear's birth certificate |
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| Dressing the Bear |
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| Meet Maddie... the Birthday Bear. She even has a song that sings a birthday song. Maddie took a stroll down to the play area at the mall to play |
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| Next, we rode the train that goes around the mall... who knew they had this?? I don't get to the mall much. But, the birthday girl wanted to, so we did. Also the conductor was Mr. Dan from church. Mr. Dan dresses up every Sunday and greets kids in the lobby of church. Elaina loves him so she was happy to see him. |
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| Maddie rode too... |
After we left the mall, it was dinner time. No pics from dinner. But, let's just say we were hungry and Maddie had her own seat at the dinner table. A good day... no, a great day celebrating our little... um, not so little girl. We love her so much - her smiles, her laugh, her sweetness - we love it all. Happy Birthday Elaina!!!
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