Alternately...The Day We Had a Covid Birthday Party
AKA...The Day We Received Clear Confirmation That Our Littles Get Wild Without Routine...
Ok, we had a great day. I worried a bunch for nothing. Baby Girl woke up this morning super excited to be the birthday girl for the day. She understood right from the start that people wouldn't be coming over and was just excited for her mail and the people that stopped by to say Happy Birthday through the door or from the driveway. She had lots of calls and facetimed with her friends. She loved her birthday cake that her big sister made her. She loved all the letters and packages that came in the mail - there were so many she had to take a break in the middle of opening them all. I can't thank my cyber tribe enough for coming through with all that. She got a big girl gift from Mom and Dad that she probably wouldn't have if it were a normal birthday. So she can thank coronavirus for her makeup and vanity table. Mama probably would've declared that too big for her during normal circumstances, but these are not normal times and some things should be good surprises. It is also why Baby Boy is allowed to play Fortnite with his big brother. Exceptions are being made.
At her request, Daddy made a last minute pinata out of an Amazon box (pinatas are in short supply around here, but Amazon boxes are plentiful) and leftover Easter candy. They beat it with a baseball bat in the front yard - Baby Girl dressed in her fancy, flowered Easter dress and striped pants and snow boots. We picked up pizza for dinner and sang and let her blow out candles. We gave her some extra quarantine gifts, which included a bath doll and she immediately abandoned the cake and ran upstairs for a bath and jammies. And then, after chatting with some more friends and sneaking out of her bed, she curled up on Mama's lap and fell asleep while I watched Thor with Daddy. My baby girl, the youngest one, my brand new six year old. Bittersweet. Let me tell you, I enjoyed that late night cuddle - soaked it right on up.
This girl....she is just walking sunshine. She wakes up excited and ready to start her day. She throw her heart into everything she is doing - even if that thing she is doing is getting into mischief. She has the sweetest heart and thinks of others all the time. She is clever, her brain works in the coolest way. She sees the shape of things, the way they fit...she calls herself the puzzle master and she can sit down with me and work any size puzzle and make pieces fit. She just sees the pattern in her head. She makes up back stories for all her dolls and horses and bunny people. She comes up with the funniest ideas - since we have been quarantined, she has decided to wear all her clothes inside out and backwards 90% of the time. Not sure how I am going to talk her into fixing that when we can leave the house again. She talks to Jesus like he is her close confident and she sings about Him randomly all over the place. She is passionate and loud and exuberant. She just lights up our lives. Can't wait to see how she changes the world in the next 365 days.
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