Howcroft Family: Happy Birthday Kirsten!

Kirsten Sue if five! It was such a fun day! She woke up early and Kirk got up with her letting Timothy and I sleep a little longer since we had been up during the night. Kirk kept trying to wish her happy birthday and she kept telling him "No Dad, Mom says I'm still four." No matter what Kirk said she was adamant about still being four. Audrey also backed her up "Dad, Kirsten is four Mom said." Finally they came and woke me up. Kirsten asked "Mom, am I five?" I told her she was and she turned to Kirk and said "Now I'm five Dad!" It was hilarious.
She begged to wear her Halloween outfit that I hidden from her in the top of her closet. She reasoned it was her birthday so she could finally wear her favorite clothes.
As soon as I was awake Kirsten begged to open the presents she found on the bench downstairs. She was excited to open clothes, princesses, my little pony toys, nutella, markers, stick on earrings. We made her favorite breakfast (poppy seed muffins and scrambled eggs). She then helped me decorate the cupcakes for her preschool class. We had a nice easy going morning. The girls played happily with the new toys and it was so nice to have Kirk home. Kirsten was very excited to go to school on her birthday. Her teacher texted me a few pictures of Kirsten's class eating cupcakes. Those kids have become her best little friends and she wanted so badly to have a birthday party with them.
We surprised Kirsten and picked her up from school and took her to a blow up slide party place. She was in heaven and wore herself out going up and down a million times. After a couple hours of bouncy slides we took the girls to the Disney store to pick out a toy for her birthday. She picked out the stuffed Jasmine doll she has been wanting since Disney on Ice. We picked up parfaits from McDonalds (her favorite treat) and ate at home. After getting Timothy in bed we blew out candles and she made a wish. She wished to love and be happy. She's such a sweetheart. It was such a fun day celebrating our sweet Kirsten Sue.

Balloons hanging in her bedroom doorway. She woke up and said "wow" we could hear her across the house. She then dragged Kirk out of bed and made him walk through it repeatedly with her (over 20 balloons, not an easy thing to do!).