A Birthday Celebration

This year Millie requested that her birthday party be at Monkey Joes.  I didn't want to pay the outrageous fee to rent a room for two hours, so we invited Millie's best buddy, Deacon to come with us and called it a party.  The bonus was that Deacon's mom and sister watched Sophia while we went and played!

 Levi loved playing on the blow up playground.  He didn't want to leave, but Millie and Deacon asked to leave because they were wore out after about 2 hours. 

We went to Monkey Joes on Tuesday and our family celebration on Wednesday, but Millie's birthday isn't until Saturday.   Because everyone was off on the 4th of July we celebrated early, Millie didn't complain. 

When planning out the day, at 6:30 am, Millie decided that she would let everyone arrive at her party, eat, then open her presents.  It was just too hard to wait until everyone arrived, so Millie asked if she could open one of her present from early with just Pap, Grandma, Aunt Tootsie, and Grandma McCoy.  She was one happy girl to get her dollar bin sunglasses, Hello Kitty stickers, paper, and tin from Sophia.

 It still proved difficult to wait until everyone was seated with their food, but she did it....while sitting on her biggest present, a bike from Mom and Dad.  Yes it was in a box and not assembled. 

 Levi got in on the present action and helped Millie open her "American Girl" doll.  It is actually just a doll from Target, but I didn't want to spend the $150, and neither did Grandma on a doll that we were not sure Millie would like or play with. 

Millie wanted to take an active roll in her party and picked out cupcakes instead of a cake.  We had Hello Kitty cupcakes, Care Bear cupcakes, and Beauteefull rose cupcakes.  She also got Hello Kitty plates, and tie die cups.  It was a great party.

After everyone left I was cleaning up the mess and didn't hear Millie, I went to check on her and she was sound asleep in Levi's game chair.  I let her sleep and continued cleaning up and found her new doll with matching nightgown all tucked in for a nap too.

Maybe we will do American Girl next year.