Elliott Is Four!

Elliott is not my baby anymore. At least that is what she tries to tell me. What she doesn't know is she will always be my baby! Even though she is now 4, and getting tall, and super smart. This year we kept her birthday very simple. (Though if you remember her birthday last year you are thinking, "How much more simple could it get?!") There is going to be a lot of other fun things happening this month and she was happy about everything so I feel slightly less guilty am happy too!
We were able to spend Mother's Day weekend with my Mom and we celebrated Elliott's birthday as well.

Ready for brownies with chocolate frosting- her request.

Les and Abbey experiment with static electricity.


Cool chicks!

Thanks Nana and Les for making Elliott's birthday special even though the weekend was so busy! And I want to mention one of the gifts my mom got for Elliott- a subscription to Highlights High Five magazine. Elliott was so excited to get her first issue in the mail and has "read" it to me many times in the car already. It's a great magazine if you are looking for something like that for a 3-5 year old.

Once home from our weekend at Nana's, we got ready to celebrate some more. For the first time in her life, Chad was home on Elliott's actual birthday. (Yes, he has been out of town for work on her big day three years in a row.) She got a birthday crown at preschool and was happy that her friends sang to her. In the afternoon she helped me put up some streamers and waited impatiently for Abbey to get home from school. Then when Chad and Abbey did get home we could not find candles for the cake anywhere. She was actually willing to wait for Chad to go to the store and get some.

Just light the candles already, Mama!


Happy to be with Daddy.

Abbey liked the strawberry shortcake too.

She loves Pinkalicious! We sat down and read it twice.

I love my smart, talkative, funny, stubborn, loving, imaginative girl! Happy 4th birthday, Elliott!