Zadie's Birthday Weekend: Day One

How we should all start the day: with a rainbow popsicle!

Getting her first mani/pedi.

This used to be a baby back rib. She enjoyed lemonade and cornbread.

I'm usually carrying Charlie, so Zadie got to be carried all over the place.  This was right after the ferris wheel.

Thanks to Sidney for making a great cake with blue frosting, just like Zadie requested!  (This is her cute new outfit from Grandma Linda)

Zadie had some very specific requests for her birthday.  Instead of a party in the park, she wanted to have a few kids over and watch a movie projected onto the living room wall.  More specifically, she requested that there be no little brothers or babies at her party.  That's quite the insight into her everyday life.

So we obliged her and farmed out the two boys to some very kind friends and relatives while we took her to Long Beach for a fun day with her two moms.  Although we each try hard to spend alone time with our kids, I don't think she's had time alone with both of her moms since before she was 17 months old and Skip arrived.

Per her request, we took her to get a popsicle and then her very first mani/pedi.  She picked out the colors and felt quite pampered.  Then we took her to lunch -- baby back ribs and cornbread!  Lastly, we took her on the ferris wheel and for a haircut.

Then it was time to return home and get ready for Zadie's party.  My sister called around this time and asked if I was stressed out about preparing for the party and I had to laugh because all we really did was clean the house and then throw on a movie.  Tori made a casserole, Sidney brought a cake, and all was good.  Some of the adults played Scrabble while it was happening.  That was the really nice part of not having the younger kids there -- we could relax and let the older kids play together.

Oh, and an hour before the party started Zadie got a really wonderful surprise: her cousins Sophie and Izzy showed up for a sleepover!  You really wouldn't believe how excited she was.  It makes me sooo happy to see how excited she gets to spend time with those two.  She had told us that she was really hoping to see Sophie and Izzy on her birthday and her wish came true.