Kassie's Birthday

Kassie turned 4!!! Crazy girl is just growing up too fast! She is so gracious and fun.  She is full of spunk and is very animated.  I would love to spend a few minutes in her brain to better understand how it works and why she thinks and says the things she does.  Here is an example of a conversation I had with her on her birthday.

Kassie: "Mom, so when am I 4? Am I 4 now?"
Me: "Yes, Kassie you are 4 now."
Kassie: "Ok, so can I stay home by myself now?"
Me: "No!"

We had a full day planned for Kassie. Well honestly Kassie planned a full day for herself.  The night before Kassie's birthday, Jason and I filled balloons and covered the floor of her bedroom.  When she woke up she sat up in bed, noticed all the balloons and said "WOW, that is a lot of balloons!"

   We had a friend birthday party with 8 adorable girls. Kassie was very involved in the planning process of her party.  She picked the activities, decorations and treat.  Our theme was Unicorns and so we had a unicorn pinata, we played musical chairs, charades, and had a unicorn mane relay race.  (we had two teams and they raced to add the "mane" to the unicorn).  We frosted cookies and had hats because according to Kassie you have to have hats at a birthday party.  After all of the activities Kassie opened her very generous birthday presents and then the girls played on the swing set until the parents arrived to take them home.

 

Photo-op by the unicorns with their new multi-colored manes.

 

The girls decorating their sugar cookies.  Kassie picked out the hats, paper products and treats for her friends.

 Pinata Time!  Kassie of course picked out the Pinata and the toys and candy to fill it with.  We broke our stick twice before finally breaking open the Unicorn.

Kassie LOVED her presents! Thank you to all of her friends for being so generous!

  After the friend party we took a short break before starting part two of the festivities.  Kassie chose (shocker I know) homemade Macaroni and Cheese for her birthday dinner.  We have had the same dinner on Kassie's birthday for the last 4 years.  This year we did upgrade from the box assortment to homemade.  After dinner Kassie opened her presents.

 Kassie received new doll cloths from Grammy.

 Jason and I gave Kassie new tinkerbell sheets and a new comforter for her new twin size bed.

 Grandma Murdock gave Kassie this new super soft tinkerbell blanket.

and Nana Hobbs gave Kassie $20 to buy something she wants.

 After presents it was time for cake and ice cream.  I was laughing at Kassie because she blew out 1 candle at a time.  Kassie, of course, helped me decorate her cake the night before because we could not leave it to today because today was her birthday. Her ice cream flavor of choice is Neapolitan. 

 I think everyone enjoyed the cake and ice cream.

Kassie got a bonus gift this year.  While we were at Macey's picking up some last minute items she found this cute unicorn and asked really nicely for it.  How do you tell the birthday girl "no"?  So we came home with it.  All the kids got a little goofy riding the new unicorn.

What is not to love about this adorable face! Kassie is such a joy to have in our family.  She is so entertaining and keeps us on our toes all the time.  She is constantly dancing and fluttering through life.  She is so logical and once she has thought something through and decided how it should work good luck trying to change her mind.  She is a keeper!