ONE ZERO!

My baby turned 10 last week.....

K has been so excited for her birthday to finally get here.  We have counted down the days and thank goodness it didn't take any longer (she would have probably died)

Since this is an EVEN year, she was able to have a friend party.  Last time 2 years ago, only one friend came to her party, but she was okay with that as it was her best friend. I should have learned from that experience since her birthday falls during Spring Break.  But we decided to hold her birthday a week before her actual day, still during Spring Break, but we figured it would be okay.  WRONG.....you will never guess......ONE person showed up again this year.  Her closest friends didn't even come, but we were just glad that a new friend did come.  K has such a good attitude about it and they sure had a great time playing.  J even got in on the activities.

It was a WILD Animal Party and K sure had a great time helping me decorate.....I didn't realize that my girls had so many stuffed animals.  (I take that back....I knew they did but to see them all lined up and in every nook and corner of the family room and living room made it all too real)

K spent some time on the computer printing out wild animal pictures to put in their foam frames they made.  We found some cute animal foam shapes to make and put on clothes pins. 

There was animal bongo and Just Dance......

We had lion cupcakes for dessert.....

And after all that fun, one of her closet friends came over and picked her up for some friend time (since she was still in school during the party time).  She thought that was so cool....and even better, she got to stay over after and play for awhile.  I really don't think she cared that more people didn't show up after all of that.

Then the day before her birthday, we went out to dinner as a family.  T had to work and M had to babysit on her actual birthday, so we did dinner at Chuck E Cheese.  We had a blast as usual playing the games and earning tickets.  I think we earned the most we ever have in the past.  K and J got some fun things and we filled up on pizza and salad.

And as we did last year, our normal family picture at CEC....

Have you ever tried to get 6 people in that shot....it is not easy and T said he doesn't want to go over the top anymore (he says he is getting too old for that)

The next day....finally her birthday.....we went to the dollar movie and saw "We Bought a Zoo".  We had popcorn, soda and Slurpee's and really liked the movie.....it had a bear in it!  Since we already went out for her bday dinner, I let her pick something to make.  She picked breakfast casserole.  Afterwards, we opened presents and had ice cream.  It was weird to not have T and M with us as we took the picture of the birthday girl with everyone (except mom of course)

She got 2 bear necklaces...one from her Granny and the Panda bear from us.....she loves them both but we told her she had to be really careful with the silver one cuz the arms and legs really move.....she said she would never wear it to school just to be safe....probably a good idea.

I think she had a good week celebrating her birthday.   She helped me make sugar cookies for her class and took them on her first day back to school from break.  She was thrilled when her teacher gave her a National Geographic magazine that had the main article and cover picture of bears....her teacher is so sweet and knows her so well.

Happy Birthday my sweet Guck!  I love you!