Emmaline's Birthday Party

This is way, way, way overdue since her party was over 4 weeks ago. But I guess better late than never.

We held Emmaline's 4th birthday party on a Friday evening. It was a Sleeping Beauty Pajama Party. All the kids and even a few of the adults sported their jammies. We had breakfast for dinner and I think it was a big hit. Breakfast casseroles, pancakes, bacon, fresh fruit all followed by some yummy cake. And the best part.....once it was all said and done, the kids all went home and were already ready for bed!

Emmaline and some of her friends, Kassidy, Jenna Claire and Natalie Kate

Emmaline loving on her Aunt Tricia.

We were singing Happy Birthday to her and she got really shy. We have discovered that she does not like all the attention focused on her.

One of her favorite gifts, a princess jammie dress. Thanks Lisa!!

At this point, I have no idea what was making her laugh so hard, but she certainly thought that something was funny :-)

We got her a bicycle for her "big" gift. She was soooo happy to get it that I got a great big kiss as a thank you!!

Pinata loot!

We also got her this dry erase book to help her with her letters and numbers along with shapes and a few other things in it. I was very impressed when it was the first thing she wanted to mess with when we got home after her party. Of course the next morning, she was all about the toys :-)

One very sleepy girl.

Four weeks later and she is still talking about her birthday and her party, so I guess she enjoyed herself. I know I put a lot of pressure on myself wanting her to have a good time but I think she and the other kids did. She is already asking when she is going to have a birthday again. I have been trying to explain to her that everyone else has to have their birthday before she can have another one. She seems to be okay with that as long as they each get a party. When I was telling her that we were going to go see her Papa for his birthday, she wanted to know what kind of party he was going to have and told me we had to go get him some pencils and some boy stuff. She has a thing for pencils....she made me get some for her Daddy's birthday too :-)