The Three Days of Birthday

I don't know what I started...or in hindsight exactly why...but on Sunday (March 8th) I gave MC the choice about when to celebrate her birthday. I said we could do it Sunday night, Monday night, or Tuesday night (tonight, her real birthday...or as Jan pointed out birth anniversary). Well, what would almost any little girl choose?? NOW!! :) And I asked her if she'd feel bad if she didn't have any presents to open on her birthday because she got them all early and she informed me that she didn't NEED presents...on her birthday that is. ;)

So Sunday evening we had dinner, then had and "Ice Cream Sandwich Cake", then opened presents from

• Grandma Carol and Grandpa Don
• BR
• Grandma Paula and Grandpa Jan (who happened to be there)
• Rob and I

This is what she got:

• ipod shuffle (see exhibit A)
• 8 year old figurine/doll to add to her birthday figurine collection from Grandma Carol and Papa Don
• a little wooden jewelry box with some little glass/stone carved animals (BR came to me Sunday afternoon and started asking if he could give her some of my things for her birthday, mighty generous of him eh? ;) After rummaging around in boxes of storage we found some things he could give her...and she actually seems to like them more than some of the gifts we paid money for!! Go figure.)
• a Cinderella Polly Pocket type doll with a changeable head and lots of clothes and accessories
• itunes gift card
• an outfit (a skimp...which I just learned is one of those dresses that you wear with capri leggings underneath, capri leggings, some canvas wedge shoes...that she just loves...she really likes shoes!!)
• a lamb webkinz...she's been wanting a webkinz so we decided to indulge her :P (See Exhibit A)
• a journal with a locket to keep it shut (one day she was shopping at "Justice" with some of her money and debated between a journal that locks and a bunch of cosmetic type items...she chose the cosmetics but it was a tough choice!
• some walkie talkie cell phones (I thought she would be all over these because she's got all kinds of fake or old dead cell phones that she carries around and pretends to talk on or wants us to pretend with her...so far the people who've shown the most interest in these little pink cell phones are the menfolk in the family. See exhibit B)

Exhibit A:

*she didn't like the ear buds so she's using some old headphones she had instead.

MC can hardly be seen without her ipod these days

and can generally be expected to speak to you at a very high volume.) ;)
She's holding "lamby" her webkinz

Exhibit B:

After the presents "The Birthday Girl", as she began referring to herself, wanted first to put some music on her and listen to it, second to go online and adopt/play with her virtual lamby. Then it was bedtime.

The next day....still not her birthday....I surprised her with another gift. A trip to my sister's salon to get her hair cut/styled and her finger and toe nails done. She loved the surprise and getting all dolled up. At home she piped up at any opportunity with "the birthday girl" ;)

*MC's new outfit and hairdo

Finally today was her real birthday and we wished her a happy birthday and she didn't have to do chores (a tradition from my childhood that I loved) and she got to watch a movie and I played a game with her, but besides that....and the fact that she mentioned that she's the birthday girl at any privilege or opportunity that came up...it was a pretty uneventful birthday.

...I wonder if she liked that it was like 3 days of birthday,
or if she felt the glory of her actual birthday diminished by
the way we did it....hmmmm....I guess I'll have to ask her.

*ready for bed on the night of her actual birthday

A few perks that MC is excited about that come with being 8:

1. She's legally free from the Utah state law of car seat until 8
2. She gets to go to Activity Days (which is like Merrie Miss for those who are just figuring these things out like I am) :)
3. And most importantly, she gets to be baptized (BTW we've changed the projected date to May 2nd due to conflicting schedules for the end of March...but now it seems that May might conflict too...oh well, we try) :)

Also of note for Molly's 8th year:

• we just got her teeth checked and she continues to be cavity free!! (How jealous am I?!?! I think I need another root canal....I'm amazed at my children's and husband's teeth!! I think they're made of ROCK!)
• she's 4'1" tall
• she's 52.5 lbs
• she wears size 7 in almost everything (except her long torso takes a size 8 in shirts)