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Birthday Overload

 It's been several weeks of nothing but birthday. First me, then Maddy, and yesterday, Aaron. With Easter thrown into the mix as well, we are pooped from partying. The party for Maddy started on Thursday when she took cupcakes to her class at school and had an Easter egg hunt, all in the same day.
 This is a random pic of a "beautiful bouquet" of weeds Maddy picked from the backyard. She is telling her bunny to say cheese for the camera.
 Friday we did egg dying. Maddy loved it as usual. We went a bit overboard this year with 12 colors of dye and a total of 32 eggs. I was going to do 18 but Aaron thought we were wasting dye so he boiled another dozen for us to color.

 I think Maddy likes eating the eggs as much as she likes dying them. What a little ham.
 Saturday was the big 0-4! Maddy requested an "Abbey and Houdini chasing a bunny" cake. Tam and I put our heads together and came up with one. She loved it.
 We combined Easter/Spring decor with the b-day to make it easier. We used the eggs we dyed and Maddy's stuffed bunnies, ducks, and lambs.

 Easter egg with chocolate cake. Yum, yum.
 Ice cream!
 Maddy was trying to guess what her presents were before opening. Her comment on this one: "I think this feels like frozen meatballs." (It was a thermos for water.)
 The big gift. A tricycle! She loves it! LOVES it. We have ridden every day so far. It is going to take some work to get the peddling down and to get some distance but she's loving it.
 We told her to say cheese and instead she yelled, "HELP!" She couldn't get off the trike by herself.
 The bday girl requested spaghetti and meat balls for her birthday supper.
 This is Maddy trying to use as many presents as she possibly can at once. She is wearing her bike helmet, wearing her swimsuit and sparkly princess shoes, riding her trike, and she has play food she got for her play kitchen stored in her little compartment on the back of the bike.
 Easter morning. Pretty girl. At first she wasn't sure if she should touch her Easter basket. That didn't last long. The explosion below continues down the stairs to the front door.

 Aaron's b-day was pretty low key after all the celebrating. We opened presents. Maddy got him a razor. She wanted to get him a black t-shirt that said RASTIFARI with a lion wearing a crown walking out of a background of tye dye color. I had to tell her no on that one, so she got him a razor instead. She was Daddy's little birthday helper. She supervised all the present opening and helped him blow out the candle on his piece of leftover birthday cake (from her bday cake). Before you feel too sorry for Aaron, he does have a rain check on a birthday meal and dessert at Cafe Brazil.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I can't stop laughing about the rastifari shirt. hahahahahahaha I wish you had gotten it. And frozen meatballs as a present? too funny.
brittany
April 2, 2013 at 3:39 PM
bee said…
I am with you Brittany. I can't stop laughing at this entire post! Maddy, you are such a hoot! Lots of fun at the Fletcher house for sure.
April 2, 2013 at 7:53 PM
Brandon E. said…
That girl has way too much fun.
April 6, 2013 at 9:52 PM
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