Bethany's 4th Birthday

Since Bethany's birthday fell on a Sunday this year, we decided to spread out the festivities and make it a birthday weekend!
On Friday, I got to take her on a special birthday date.
Bethany wanted to have her birthday lunch at Burger King, where she picked chicken nuggets, apple slices, and apple juice for her kid's meal.


A big ice cream lover, she then chose to trade her toy in for an ice cream cone, and happily savored each delicious little lick and bite. ;)

We had a lot of fun talking, wearing crowns, dancing to the music, and playing in the play place.

 

These curls. Perfection. I hope she always loves her beautiful hair as much as everyone else does.

After lunch, we headed to Target where we cruised the isles and picked out some party favors for her to share with her preschool friends the following Tuesday.
Then we went to the mall, where she got to choose her first birthday present--an outfit for her build a bear. It was a tough call between a super girl outfit and Elsa, but Elsa won out. ;) She had fun picking out her dress, crown, and sparkly purple shoes.

Matching Bethany and bear Elsas. Sooo cute!

Saturday morning, we made her long-anticipated birthday breakfast of cinnamon rolls, bacon, and banana. (For months now, she's been so excited for her birthday cinnamon rolls and cinnamon roll cake. ;) )

While Kaylee and Cambree took their nap, Travis got his turn for a date with the birthday girl, and took Grace and Bethany to the dollar theatre to watch Inside Out (a movie that all of us have been eager to see.) Wearing her new birthday outfit (a Princess Sophia shirt and her favorite jeggings):

While they were gone, I decorated the house...

(the girls all had fun with the balloons)

...and prepped Bethany's birthday dinner. Travis decorated the kids pizza with a B for Bethany:

 

We all enjoyed her yummy dinner of pizza (alfredo, BBQ, veggie, and cheese), fruit salad, broccoli, Doritos, and gold fish.

Then she opened up a couple presents. Bethany's favorite toys right now are Little People princesses, so we got her Aurora and the good fairies to add to her collection. :)

Sunday morning poor Bethany woke up sick, which made me very grateful that we did most of the celebrating early! She tried to eat some breakfast, but ended up spending most of the morning and afternoon lying on the couch watching movies with Travis while I took the rest of the kids to church. We all felt so bad that she was sick for her birthday. Sweet Cambree even tried to comfort her before we left for church. :)

Feeling some better after we got home, we all had yummy leftovers for dinner with my parents, then had cake and ice cream. It was a princess themed party, so I Grace and I made a cinnamon roll cake (as requested), then decorated the cake with Frozen decals.

Enjoying her "birthday cake" ice cream. :)

Grace happily did "heavy heavy hangs" for Bethany with her presents.

Grammy and Poppy got Bethany her own set of Little People princesses which she has loved playing with since.

She also got a few other presents, including some new dress up clothes for our dress-up loving girl:

And then we just enjoyed playing before bed. Kaylee and Cambree loving on Poppy:

Poppy and Cambree:

Kaylee and Grammy:

Bethany, at 4 you like to eat Honey Bunches of Oats, chocolate chip pancakes, cinnamon toast, strawberries, Club crackers, pizza, chicken nuggets, broccoli, pears, cookies, and m'n'ms. You love to play with Little People, Lego people and dogs, dress up, write letters, and play pretend. You love the color purple, dogs and other animals, colorful leaves, and watching Wishenpoof, Wonderpets, and Blues Clues. You're a good singer, love to read books with mom and dad, like to help cook, and love to snuggle. You're getting better and better at expressing yourself and seem a little older every day. But most of all, you are such a sweet girl and we love you with all our hearts. Happy birthday big girl!