Sunday, May 6, 2018

Kassidy's 4th Birthday

Oh Kassidy... It's so strange to think that she's 4 now when she still acts so much younger than her sisters did at the same age.  However, once in a while we see a glimpse of an older Kassidy who can be helpful.  Regardless, she is so fun and loving and creative.  She tells the most outrageous and creative stories, and we can't even wrap our minds around how much she has grown emotionally and socially in the last 6-8 months.  Here was our big girl on her birthday.
 Oh the mischief in that face... So very Kassidy.  I was asking her if she was excited to be 4 while she ate a Reese's Peanut Butter cup she got from the Bishopric the day before at church.  She was excited for a few minutes, and at other times she has cried and complained that it isn't her birthday.  So... pretty typical Kass.

We had her birthday party on Saturday, May 5th.  Kassidy has been into bugs and butterflies lately, so we got her some live caterpillars that will become butterflies and they arrived this last week.  She calls them "Slimey" (from Sesame Street).  Kassidy also loves the pigeon from the book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!  So, that's what we decided to make for her cake.
Honestly, that pigeon constantly tries to finagle its way into doing things it isn't supposed to and is both rational and crazy at times, so it's a pretty dang good fit for our ginger.  Kassidy wanted pink cake, but vanilla flavored, and chocolate filling, so that's what we did.  I have to say, chocolate ganache is easy and dangerously delicious!
 For Kassidy's birthday we ended up watching The Greatest Showman on the movie screen - she loves the songs.  Then we ate tacos and fajitas for dinner.  Whenever we asked Kassidy what she wanted for dinner she just kept naming another books she likes - Dragons Love Tacos - and eventually she said she actually would want tacos for dinner.  We also had watermelon, which Gavin enjoyed, though I'm not sure I'll ever save that shirt....

Then came presents.  Kassidy can tear through a gift with the best of them.  She opened this dinosaur mountain from Aunt Julie first and was so excited when she saw it, shouting "Chocolate Chippy!"
You can tell the dinosaurs were a big hit.  She was handing them out to people telling us what dinosaurs we wanted, all the while holding on to at least one while she continued to open gifts.
Gavin gleefully snatched dinosaurs and ran too.  He fits the typical little brother stereotypes.

After gifts we did cake and ice cream quick.  Kassidy loved her pigeon cake.  I had her hair in cute french brain pigtails and then she tore one out right before her party started - of course.

Sunday morning Kassidy came out of her room fully dressed before we even knew she was awake in one of her new shirts and spent the rest of the day when she wasn't in church being a butterfly with her new wings and pulling her helium balloons around the house.  I'd say she had a pretty good birthday.

Happy fourth to our wild child!

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