Avery

I am still cracking up at the conversation I had with my daughter this evening. We sang the song,"I love to see the temple," after which she told me she didn't want to get married because she doesn't ever want to have to kiss anyone other than mom and dad. We talked about it and then she said,"I do want to have children but they will tell me that I am old". The conversation went on and I left her room laughing. She is growing up so fast. Where do they come up with these things?? She is now 5 and so proud of it. She is already talking about turning 6. Ease up!! I am not ready for my little girl to grow up. Now on to her birthday festivities.....I must say she had quite the "golden" birthday. I took for a "mini" manicure and pedicure(you should have seen her glowing). I loved every minute of our little date together as well. She is so much fun to be with and would be. She kept saying,"now where should we go." Eric and I have decided to make it a tradition to have one of us take the birthday child on a special "birthday date"(Thomas has his already planned with Dad in June). It doesn't have to be anything grand, it is just taking out the time to be with that child to talk, laugh, and well, make them feel special. Avery was so appreciative of her day out with me and kept thanking me for it. On her actual birthday I made her a castle cake that I was hoping would translate to life as good as it looked in my head. She loved it and that's all that matters. We then took her to Red Robbin when Dad got home from work. The big red bird was there in person and the kids loved him or her(I'm going to call it a she). Avery wanted to take her home so I said that would be great if it slept with her and she told me that wouldn't great because it's eyes don't close and it would stare at her all night. The grand finally of the birthday festivities was her friend party two days after her real birthday. It was filled with cupcake decorating, and an ice cream cone pinata that would have taken hours for the candy to burst out had we not torn the thing apart by hand:). All her best buddies were there and they all had a blast and she was worth all the effort to make her golden birthday a good one. She is such an amazing little girl with so much love. She is so sensitive to my needs and pretty much always helps me out without complaining...no joke. I must say though...I don't want to see any cake until June!