Birthday Girl

Jerz had a birthday shout hooray!  We hope her tantrums will leave today!  One year older and hopefully out of this phase, Happy Birthday... to Jerz!

Ok, that's kind of mean...but kind of true.  She threw tantrums all her life basically, but then she quit for awhile.  I thought she grew out of it, and that it really was just a phase like everyone tells me, but she's picked it up again, and we're hoping it won't last long.  She definitely keeps me on my toes.

But when she's not throwing a fit, she is the funnest, funniest little girl.  We love her spunk. We love how happy she gets over the littlest things, and we love to make her laugh.

Her grandparents spoiled her on her birthday.  She was in heaven with all the horses, barbies, and baby/baby clothes.

Every year we carve pumpkins on her b-day, and so this year we invited Christina (one of Had's co-residents, with no family here) over to come carve pumpkins with us and have cake and ice cream.  And because this year, Jerzi's b-day was on a Sunday, we didn't plan a birthday party for her.  Instead, we took her and her friend to Chuckie Cheese, and to a big bouncey jump playground thing the day before, like she wanted.  But on the day of her b-day, she was pretty upset she wasn't having a birthday party, like Jeter got.  And she insisted that she wasn't turning 4 cuz she didn't have a party.

So instead of carving pumpkins with everyone, while they carved, I whipped up a sad little attempt at a "princess barbie cake" to make the birthday girl happy.  

It worked.

She loved it and couldn't believe I "knew how" to make that kind of cake.  The inside cake part was even pink, strawberry flavored, like she wanted.

Yay for having all the things on hand to make this cake at the last second, and yay for being able to make the birthday girl happy!

The finished pumpkins!

Even though she ended up being happy, Jerzi still wouldn't believe us that she turned 4 without having a party, so I through together a little Halloween/birthday party a few days later, on Halloween.  She invited a few friends.  

(This, in and of itself, is a major accomplishment for her.  She normally doesn't play too good with other kids, mainly just follows Jeter around.  So I was so proud that she wanted to have a party, invite other kids, and Jeter wasn't even going to be there.) 

 The kids got dressed up in their costumes, ate a Halloween lunch, decorated Halloween cookies, played, watched her new Barbie horse movie, and ate cupcakes, while all of us moms got to hang out with each other and visit.  The party was a hit, and four days after her birthday, Jerzi finally turned 4 at her very own birthday party!!!