Saturday, May 5, 2012

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Vanna's Fourth Birthday

Vanna turned four a couple weeks ago and thinks she is just so grown up now.  She had a great day.  Daddy had the day off work so we spent all day celebrating together as a family - it was perfect!  The day started out with opening her present - she got the Lady & the Tramp DVD.  Vanna loves animals, in particular, puppies and kitties.  Ever since she was a baby, she couldn't let a dog or cat go unnoticed when she spotted one - so we thought she'd love the movie - and she does! 



Then we took Cash to preschool and took Vanna to the store where she got bubble gum (an all time favorite with Vanna) and she got to pick out her own "big girl bike".  


And she's off!

She also took her money that she got with Grandma and Grandpa Mendenhall's card and picked out this little stuffed pony that came with a carry along-type purse.  She toted it around that entire day and still does.  I guess it was a good choice.  Thanks Grandma & Grandpa!


While we were at the store we picked up Vanna's birthday cake from the bakery that she had picked out a couple days before.  I was surprised by the cake she picked out.  We looked through the bakery's book of cake options and I thought for sure she'd pick one with a theme like Tinkerbell or something but instead she insisted on picking out this "beach cake".  I think it was because they had one already made up and on display and she couldn't get the one that was right in front of her face out of her mind. :)  So...a beach cake she got!


After leaving the store, we picked up Cash from preschool and headed to Carl's Jr. for lunch.  This is the kids' favorite place to eat because of their large indoor play area.  BUT we found out it was closed for cleaning when we pulled up.  Luckily it was a really nice day so we went to McDonalds instead, where they have an outdoor play area that the kids enjoyed.

Yay for Happy Meals!


Beautiful birthday girl!


Mom - the sun is in my eyes!
For dessert we went to Kiwi Loco - a new ice cream shop in the area.  You pick from a variety of frozen yogurt flavors and then get to load on the toppings.  Because of Vanna's love for sweets, we thought she'd go nuts and pile on the candy toppings.  Again, she surprised us though by only choosing a couple things to put on her ice cream. 


Can you tell I love the vingette picture enhancement? :)

Then off to the movie theater we went.  Weeks prior to her birthday, when asked what she wanted to do for her birthday, Vanna said, "go to the feator (theater :)!"  So...to the theater we went.  All they had playing that we thought appropriate for her age was Mirror Mirror (a re-make of Snow White, with Julia Roberts) and she seemed to like it - especially the dwarfs. :)

After all this playing, we went home for a nap.  We were a bit wiped out.  Later that night we had some of Vanna's cake:


Gotta' love blue frosting!
It was a super all-about-Vanna day!  We sure love you Vanna Baby (can't hardly call her that anymore..sniff..sniff)!!!



Thought I'd just record some things about her at this age for me to remember:

-always tries to be a good little girl and reminds us of her efforts (for example, say Cash isn't listening after my repeated requests to do something - Vanna will say, "Mom, I listening."

-likes to brag about her baby sister - "Her can laugh and her can talk!"

-favorite shoes are her "poople (purple) sparkely ones"  - when she puts on her shoes, she'll place them on the floor in front of me and as she puts one foot in one shoe, asks, "Mom, this one goes on this foot?" to determine which shoe goes on which foot

-loves when I whistle or hum portions of primary songs for her to guess - she's really fast and good at this game too  

-regularly prays that "no bad guys will come to our house" and then informs Heavenly Father where she would hide if they did come to our house, also regularly prays that "our baby can be safe and reverent" and prays for our cat, Hank, as well

-loves watching me dress Rosalie or change her diapers (always asks me if Rosalie just "pee-ed" or "poop-ed" too)

-is a morning person - usually pretty smiley and gabbing or singing away in the mornings but occasionally she'll wake up before I think she's really ready and when she does this, for some reason she only wants to come to me and won't even look at her dad, despite his desperate attempts at making her (he'll say, "oh no Vanna, don't look at me, I don't want you to see this big spot on my face..." or something similar - and no matter what, she'll purposely not look at him

-dances by shaking and twirling her hips and loves twirling with her skirts on to show us how her dress flies

-always wants tucked in at night and gives us bedtime loves by always kissing us on both cheecks

2 comments:

Cami Jo said...

What a cutie! I can't believe she is four! Sounds like you had a great day. I'm sure she loved it. What a good mommy she has!

Ward Family said...

What a cute family I can't believe how big Vanna and Cash are and Rosie is sure cute! Happy Birthday Vanna!