Happy 4th Birthday Emily and Megan!

The girls' birthday was June 4.  They were SO excited for it, and the weeks leading up to it seemed to take FOR.EV.ER!

Presents up and out of the way before the big day



The girls took turns opening presents--one would open one and then the other one would.

 

Megan







Emily





Donuts for breakfast

Megan



Emily

 

 

 

 

Each girl wanted a different cake, which was fine, because if they were born on different days, I would have made 2 different cakes.  It turns out it was a bigger pain than I thought.  Emily wanted a cow cake and Megan wanted a bounce house.  (It was really a castle in our cake book, but she thought it looked like the castle bounce house from their preschool party.)  The bounce house cake required three 9" by 9" cakes, so I had to make up 3 cake mixes.

After all the cakes were baked and cooling, we headed to Smith's to get items to decorate the cake.  We went back to the bakery where they hand out free cookies to the kids (on any day of the year.)  One of the girls mentioned it was their birthday.  All of a sudden a baker was on the intercom calling for any available associates to come back and sing to the girls.  They sang to the girls AND gave them each a HUGE cupcake, as well as a 6-pack of patriotic cupcakes to share with us.  (We had no idea they did such things for birthdays, and while I was very grateful, I couldn't help but think of the 3 cakes waiting for us back at home.)







The cow cake turned out really cute.



The bounce house would be considered a "Pinterest Fail," if I had found the idea on Pinterest.  Instead it was just a "Cake Book Fail."  This is what is was supposed to look like.



This is what it turned out like.  (The tallest towers were four levels of cake high, plus they were supposed to have decorated cones on top.  Um, yeah....not happening.)



But Megan was as happy as can be, so yay for little kids not really caring what things look like.  She even put most of the decorations on herself.

 

 The girls chose to eat at McDonald's.



Then we came home for cake.

Emily






Megan

 

 

 

 

 

 Megan and Emily had a great birthday.  Both of them told me, "This is the BEST birthday ever!"

Megan



Emily



A little bit about each girl.

Emily is very observant, and not much gets by her.  She is smart.  She picks up new words easily and tries them out, even if she doesn't exactly know when to use them or how to pronounce them.  (For example she says, "That is fusterating.")  She is quite the little fish when it comes to swimming and has no fear about getting her head under water or trying to float.  She is my sleeper and many days will take a nap while watching TV.  She has been a daddy's girl from the get go and that's still true.

Megan loves to sing, dance and be a princess.  She loves to dress up in her Rapunzel dress and luckily for her, she got new Rapunzel "glass slippers" for her birthday.  Megan loves to rhyme and will make up silly rhymes off the top of her head.  She loves to do puzzles and she loves to draw and color.  She is quite the artist.  Below is a drawing she did with her new markers on her birthday.  Megan is outgoing.

 

 

 

 We sure do love both of these girls.  They have such fun personalities and make our family complete.