Ada's Birthday Recap

Sorry it's been so long, but I just haven't had the motivation to write about stuff lately.  But I wanted to give some credit to all the awesomeness that was Ada's birthday.  She got to celebrate on her actual birthday, at her party, then again when we visited Nana and Grampa in Florida (another post).  Mostly I can't believe she's 4, but I'm also a little happy we got through 3 in one piece.

Started off her actual birthday with a special birthday breakfast of banana bread strawberry shortcake, singing and candle.  Nice start to the day!

She had a Sun Celebration at her school where I was able to go and she walked around a candle/ earth for each year she has been on the Earth and we celebrated her there.  Then home for lunch and nap.  She went out to collect eggs and found a HUGE egg that turned out to be a double yolker- we decided it was a gift from the chickens.

 

She decided she wanted a breakfast burrito for lunch and so she had.  Plus 3 drink requests-water, milk, smoothie:)

We had a nice playdate/dinner with some friends and then home with Emma and me for some cake before bed.  I had seen this idea on Pinterest and loved the look of it.  This was one half of a cake recipe in one round cake pan and I just wanted something simple to make it look nice.  Just used parchment and cut out a "4" that was the right size, stuck it to the frosting and started sprinkling the nonpareils on, peel off the paper and that's it.

Next we had the party.  She was allowed to invite four friends and luckily they were all able to attend.  The theme was rainbow/ painting and the main event was painting a canvas.  We made the decorations.  Paper chain rainbows and a masking tape relief painted banner.  Other than that just blew up some balloons and that was it! Lots of inspiration from Pinterest but nothing specific- you can check out the board I created for the party here. 

Pre-party nap wake up reading with Poppa.

I made up some simple goodie bags with watercolors, markers, playdoh, and cake batter popcorn.

And I had to include a picture of her thank you note envelopes because I'm just so stinkin' proud of this girl.

The morning after the party we were off to Florida to visit Nana and Grampa and Nana had another birthday celebration which was extra nice since we missed celebrating her birthday too!  We sang to both of them (sort of) and ate cake and ice cream- a big hit!!