Happy Birthday Anna! (9 days ago)

Last week Anna finally turned 4. She has been so patient waiting for her birthday to arrive and dutifully listened to every attempt at trying to explain exactly when her birthday would be (after Dad's birthday and Emma's birthday and Thanksgiving day and putting up the Christmas tree...etc) only to answer every explanation with a hopeful "Today?!!"

When her birthday finally arrived, the first thing she said after leaping out of bed at the joyous news, was "Is everybody here?!!!". Ummm...er...no.... Then she ran out of the room to "see that everybody is not here" and came back letting me know that Dad was gone. Anyways, apparently this state of affairs was OK and so we got ready and spent the morning at the zoo, the afternoon at preschool and then when Jarod got home from work she had her pink butterfly cake and her presents.


We got Anna a castle for her birthday (again we wanted to make the most of this perfect Arizona outdoors time of year) which has been a big hit with Jakob too. We also got Cinderella II ($2 from DI) just to satisfy Anna's birthday request for a "princess movie".