Samantha's Birthday

The slideshow below shows a few pictures from Samantha's birthday, her party and just a random cute picture from her soccer game on Saturday. Her birthday on Tuesday started out great when she came down the stairs and saw her bike (Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!) and her most favorite present of all.....her huge singing mylar balloon! Of course the theme of her birthday was Disney princesses and the color pink. Princess bike, princess balloon, princess cups and plates and everything in the color pink. We are going to have to do a totally manly birthday for Alex because the girly hormones flowing through this house after this week are making me nauseous! The day of her birthday we played with some cousins, went to lunch and had a shopping spree at Toys R Us. Although, I don't know that you could call it a shopping spree!! I figured she'd be able to pick out 3 or 4 toys in our budget and in reality she only got 2! Toys are too expensive! But she seemed happy with her purchases and that's all that matters. Plus, we don't want to spoil her too much, right??

Saturday was her birthday party at Kangaroo Zoo and the kids had a blast! We stayed for about 2 hours and the kids were tired and hungry and sweaty by the time we left. In fact, so were the adults from just chasing the kids! We came back to our house and had pizza, cake and ice cream and of course presents! Samantha smiled a lot the whole day and I smiled a lot when her uncle Greg taught her how to ride her bike. She has been frustrated with it all week and hasn't wanted to ride it until magical uncle Greg figured out a way to teach her that she understood and this morning it was the first thing she wanted to do! Thank you Greg. I think it was a successful birthday for her and she seems happy to be 4! The doctor said she is doing well; 50th percentile in height and weight and seems healthy and right on target for her age. The nurse was nice enough to measure and weigh Alex as well and he is only a few ounces less than her and 1 inch shorter. No wonder everyone thinks they are twins!

Thanks to all our family for making Samantha's birthday very fun and special!