So, I’m a horrible mother and I haven’t posted Laney’s birthday pics… but, well, it’s been busy around here! Since Laney’s bday, we spent an evening in Narnia, made a trip to CoMo for the MHBC Fish Fry, and a trip to IL for the MDA Walk. So, that’s a lot of going! This has been our first weekend home, and even then Josh spent Saturday afternoon & night at church for a youth lock-in! So, I’m pleading overly busy… and better late than never, right?!
Anyway, on to the post… Laney obviously turned 4 on September 12th… I can’t believe she’s really 4, she seems like such a little girl now, definitely not a toddler anymore! It’s hard to believe that she’s really growing up so fast, and is probably even going to KINDERGARTEN next year. Wow! But, we have a year of being 4 first!
Laney got to choose her birthday dinner, of course, and made her daddy proud- she chose cheeseburgers, french fries, and fruit cocktail! :) Good choices all around!
Here’s the birthday girl, with her crown from Narnia, and her birthday dinner!
So, Laney was VERY specific with her cake choices (again, similar to her Daddy!). She knew she was having two birthday parties (one coming up in CoMo), so she said for her birthday here, she wanted a white cake with pink icing and Snow White on the top. Well, Mommy is cheap, but creative, so here’s what we ended up with:
So, it’s french vanilla cake with strawberry icing, which was kind of a no brainer. But I struggled with the Snow White- I am certainly not artistic enough to draw one at all, much less in icing! And I didn’t really want to pay $10 for a little figurine… so I did a Dollar Tree drive-by, and hit the jackpot- I found a wand with interchangeable gems that had princesses on them. My first thought was to stick the wand in the middle, but it was like 6 inches taller than the cake, so I ended up putting a little dollop of icing on the cake and leaning the gem in the middle. And then, of course, lots of silver sparkles for some bling! I thought it turned out pretty cute, and she seemed pleased with it, so we’ll call it a success!
She at least managed to listen to happy birthday without covering her face, like last year! Love that smile!!
Josh and I got her a Jesse (from Toy Story) doll, which she’d been asking about for forever, so she was quite excited. And we really enjoyed our simple birthday party at home!
And then we had a big ol’ party in CoMo! We headed there for the Fish Fry at MHBC, which I totally forgot to take my camera to, so I have zero pictures from it. But we decided to have a party for Laney’s birthday on Sunday after church. We went for a quick-fix lunch of hot dog city. The cool thing was that the Lootens decided to come up from Springfield to join us, so it was QUITE the party!
There were so many of us, we ended up pulling the breakfast room table into the living room, and then we accidentally split up and put all the Prices in the dining room and the Lootens in the living room… it was kind of like the Hatfield and McCoys! Only without the killing and the hard feelings, of course…
The Lootens…
And the Prices…
Audrey and Yaya…
The smile didn’t last too long, though, because it was late by the time we got the lunch done, and poor Miss A didn’t even have it in her to make it through the lunch! Not much keeps Miss A from eating, so she must have been WIPED! :)
And, again, Laney was very specific about what she wanted for her cake. For her cake at Grandma’s house, she wanted chocolate with pink icing (of course) and Cinderella on it! During my same Dollar Tree run, I found a package of princess frisbees… so this cake ended up looking like this:
The bonus of the frisbee cake toppers was there was a spare! And, since we were celebrating Dad’s birthday at the same time, I just KNEW he wanted a Belle cake!!
Birthday boy and girl!
Laney refused to blow out her candles… I guess she got stage fright or something, but she wouldn’t do it until Grandma Price volunteered to help!
But she was more than happy to help Grandpa blow out his!
Anyway, so quite the celebration for Miss Laney, but we just happened to be making the trip home. The whole trip was really fun, if a little short! We got to hang out with my parents on Friday night, and stayed up way too late telling stories and laughing. And then Saturday we ran some errands, and went to the Fish Fry. It was actually really fun to go to the Fish Fry and not be totally stressed about working, and baking, and being there all day. We had a great time, though! I really wish I hadn’t forgotten my camera!! They filled a wading pool with birdseed as a sensory thing for the kids to play with, and Audrey could have stayed there forever. She was totally entertained. Laney spent the whole time just running amok, like she’d never left. It was such a good time hanging out with our families and our friends from Columbia (and Springfield!).
Just as a kind of 4 year old update, here are a few random things about Laney…
- She still LOVES to read. She has started to notice words, and even sounded out her first word a couple weeks ago (it was Mole, randomly… we were reading a book about animals).
- She is also learning to write, she can write her first and last name, and actually can write Josh, too. Pretty cool watching her learn!
- She is still petite, although she’s getting taller. All her 3T pants are kind of short on her, but the 4T pants just about have to have the adjustable waistband!
- She is TOTALLY into princess (shocker)…
- Her new favorite thing to do is play Wii games. She got hooked on Wii Sports Resort, and did LOTS of sword fighting! Then she got started with Mario Party 8, which is like a board game. She’s actually pretty good on that one. And then Grandma & Grandpa Looten got her a Disney Princess game, which she also loves (shocker), but she can’t play for very long on her own- it takes a little bit too much coordination! So there’s a lot of me moving the princess while Laney wields the wand! :)
- She is VERY independent. We are having lots of fits and butting heads about what she can and can’t do. We just keep telling ourselves that this independence will be good in the long run! She’s definitely a leader!
- She still has some trouble with her eyes. We noticed it first when she was about two, and then last spring they did a screening at school and flagged her. So, anyway, we have an appointment with a pediatric ophthalmologist in Louisville in a couple of weeks.
- She is very imaginative, and has a great memory. She can tell some serious stories, and it’s pretty entertaining.
Anyway, so, that’s about it… a really long update that was really overdue! Hopefully I’ll have time to update again with pics from the MDA Walk this week… it’s Fall Break here this week!
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