Birthday!!!

Brenna turned 4! It's incredible how fast the time went yet how long ago it all seems....

At her yearly physical she was 3ft 3.5 inches tall (49%) and 35.5lbs (55%) all perfect. She was great at the appointment and had no problem talking to all the providers and answering all their questions. She even asked about parts of the exam that hadn't been done yet. She did have to get 2 shots and she was NOT happy about that. She did pretty well, but has been limping for 2 days and had a decent fever from them. She let me know she was disappointed and ashamed and did not want the shots anymore. (she was just thinking of any negative words to tell me, she wasn't really ashamed!) 

So, Brenna was not thrilled to be taking a picture on her birthday. Granted she was not feeling great. But she was sure to make a point of telling me how she did not smile for her picture. 

Our next attempt didn't start off much better. I ended up bribing her with something to get this smile.  Maybe chocolate.

She ended up with 3 celebrations. The first at school on her birthday where she brought cupcakes to share. She told me it wasn't really a party because there was no cake. That night, we had a small strawberry cake that she had picked out at the store. Which she barely touched. Finally for her birthday party the next weekend, I made the cake she had described, pink inside with white outside and strawberries. However, within the few days between me buying ingredients and her party, she had changed to no strawberries and for it to be heart shaped. I thought she'd be ok with the compromise of heart shaped strawberries on top. You can see how pleased she was!

 Then she told me all about what she REALLY wanted...this kid...

Anyway, she recovered nicely with some gift opening. She loved all her presents! 

I apologize for not being better about sending Thank-yous out. It was pretty chaotic between moving, starting school, her birthday and 3 of us being sick. Brenna (without prompting) told me the next morning "Thank you for all the beautiful presents" xoxo love you all!