My Baby Turned 4

Today is my daughter Isabelle Claire's 4th birthday {sniff sniff} I don't know where the time has gone but I wouldn't mind having a little of it back! We had a Fabulous Fourth Barbie Birthday Party for Isabelle while we were in Indiana over Thanksgiving but today is her actual birthday so we wanted it to be special too! We started off the day with a couple gifts...

Opening a card from Nan Nan

Brecklyn sent her a Leap Frog Tag reader! Such an awesome gift for both Isabelle and Mom! She gets to have stories read to her, play games, and sound out words while I get a serious 20 minutes of almost silence..ahhhh. We love it...

We gave her a small gift just so she would have something to open. A care bear pop up play tent. I underestimated how much she would love it! She played in it all day. Mostly with her Tag book...

Reading in her hide out

I left Isabelle in her tent to get started on her rainbow sprinkle birthday pancakes...

I just mix up regular pancake batter and separate it out into cups. Then add a couple drops of food coloring to get my mutli colors going...

I ended up with a helper

Then I like to pour the pancakes onto the griddle starting with a small one first and growing in size with each pancake...

This makes all the colors show when stacking...

Add a little whipped cream and sprinkles and you have super fun birthday pancakes...

The birthday girl

After the sugar rush we headed out for our funnest birthday adventure of the day. Isabelle got her ears pierced! She has been asking to wear earrings for a while now and I was not so sure about it. I told her all about it, making sure to give her all the details and told her if she still wanted to on her 4th birthday then we would go. Well, as soon as she knew it was her birthday she was still very sure she wanted to do it. So we hopped into the car and headed to the mall to Claires...

We had to bring the book of course

We walked in and Isabelle jumped right up in the chair! She had no hesitation at all and was chatting it up with the nice lady working...

Getting cleaned and ready

Spying some earrings she wants to buy already

It was time for the big moment...The ladies got on either side of her and I held her hand. She was not nervous and I thought I was going to throw up haha. They clicked them in and she did cry at first but only for a second or two before she wiped her eyes and was ready to walk around the store to shop and show off her new earrings...

She did such a good job that they gave her 2 suckers and a sticker...

She picked the pink rhinestone flowers

We stopped off at the wishing fountain before heading home to make Isabelle's birthday dinner...

Isabelle decided she wanted dinosaur nuggets for her bday dinner and that since she was 4 she could make them all by herself...

After dinner we sat down on the couch to complete her birthday survey. I will ask her these same questions every year on her birthday and see the answers change over the years. Here are her answers on her 4th birthday...



1. What is your favorite color?  pink
2. What is your favorite toy? Pet shops
3. What is your favorite fruit? Purple grapes and green grapes
4. What is your favorite tv show? Busytown
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Dino nuggets
6. What is your favorite outfit? My blue sparkle horse outfit
7. What is your favorite game? tag
8. What is your favorite snack? Ice cream
9. What is your favorite animal? Tiger 
10. What is your favorite song? ABC song
11. What is your favorite book? Snow White
12. Who is your best friend? Brecklyn
13. What is your favorite cereal? Fruit Loops aka The Parrot kind
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play soccer and draw with chalk
15. What is your favorite drink?  Chocolate milk
16. What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? My snuggly bear and blankie and polka dots too! 
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Pancakes 
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Dino nuggets
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Sergeant Murphy, He is a crossing guard..