Her sweet heart is so good - in her nicest voice, she says "oh! wow thanks Mom, a picture of Great Wolf. How nice. I've always wanted to go there." - I am dying of laughter, so I ask her "so... why do you think we gave you this?" - she says "maybe so I can look at this picture and dream about going there?" - I say "um, baby child... we are TAKING you there for your birthday!!!", (screaming, screaming, laughing, happy faces)... then I say " you even get to miss school on Monday!"... (pause, confused face)... she says "why would I miss school"?... I say "because we are spending the night"... (louder screaming, crazy happy faces... apparently she didn't realize it is called Lodge for overnight purposes)
So, after that fun reveal - we left Marcus with Nana & Poppy, and took our big kids to Great Wolf, where we had the time of our lives. So, so much fun. I love water parks... the last time I went was pre-kids in California... It was SO MUCH FUN!! Marin and Kyle even took a late night trip back out to the water slides after the rest of us were pooped. This was the perfect time to give her this experience, she was smiling from ear to ear the entire time.
On her actual birthday, later in the week, we started the morning with Cookie Crisp birthday cereal, and then we all surprised her at school in the cafeteria for lunch with donuts and birthday candles and singing. I like big displays - ha ha! She was embarrassed and super delighted at our "big" family storming her lunchroom! That night, we honored her request for a 'TV dinner' (uhhhh....) which thankfully turned out just meant dinner on the couch with TV trays, watching a movie (Polar Express, I guess Christmas never ends!). Ha ha! I was going to just die if we had to buy real TV dinners. I asked her to please give me her SECOND food choice, and she said sushi. And a frozen ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. For a moment I was bummed this would be the first birthday without a home-made cake, but I decided to look on the bright side - she gets her dream cake, and I get a year off! It WAS a yummy cake :) A pile of little presents to end the day, and she was very very tickled by all her little surprises. Sometimes your kids surprise you with the "little things" they love the most :) I love my girl so much, and feel such delight to be her mother. Last year in the single digits - WHAAAAAAAT!!!!!!
Crafty Madeline promptly made a princess hat out of Max's birthday hat & wrapping paper. Ha ha ha ha!
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