Growing Snowflowers

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY PIPER

My baby turned four today! Can anyone advise me of a special potion or herbal tincture that can stop my children growing up? I cannot believe she is FOUR! Okay, I can believe it because she has turned into Sassy McSassypants and thinks she knows more than her poor parents, she also talks incessantly and has become fickle about some foods and reluctant to sleep like she used to. Is this what FOUR is like? It's kinda seeming like it!

We started her birthday off with a jolly good helping of super sticky, super sweet, super non organic(okay maybe the sugar is organic but nothing else) sticky sticky buns (recipe from our dear neighbor Kristine!)...this is one of Pipers favorite treats, and Paisleys too I might add! Both girls DEVOURED two entire servings each, as well as a heaping ladle of scrambled eggs and bacon(yes yes, both were organic...I have to make up for it somewhere

After 'brekkie' we began the daunting task of opening pressies....boy, and was there a mountain of them! Her eyes barely reached over some of the parcels....
What could a Fancy girl wish for more than anything?

FANCY NANCY stuff out the WAHOO!

Accessories galore, Nancy herself, dress up stuff, fancy purple slippers

Fancy Nancy meet Fancy Piper...Oh La La, I am Posh!

Not only did she clean up on the FN front, she also made out like a bandit with a Tinkerbelle activity box and bath set(pictured below)...lets just say, thank goodness for the bath set, after the sticky buns both girls needed hosing down! The Tinkerbelle mirror might become a wee bit of an obsession with Piper though, Mike could hear here singing Ariel tunes from downstairs while she combed her hair! Ye Gods, help us with this child when she turns 13!

Purple Tinkerbelle bath foam looks tasty, but as Paisley figured out...tasty?...not so much

All this before noon! After bath the girls got dressed up and we headed out for a 'birthday surprise'... a trip to the movies to see 'Bedtime Stories' which was fun for Piper who just loves making up stories, for Paisley...well, she slept through the last 45 minutes!

As requested, dinner was a lavish bowl of steaming macaroni and cheese a la YUM...one of our favorite eateries in Minneapolis. Topped off with a decadent red velvet cupcake with marscapone topping! Lets just call the day a resounding success! Happy Birthday Darling...you are the fanciest, silliest, smartest little girl I know!

We are the LUCKIEST parents in the Universe to be given the honor of being your Mummy and Daddy!