Happy Birthday!!!

First thing this morning Olivia was able to open 1 present to start off the day. Gee's present has been here since Aaron's birthday... such a spectacularly cute outfit Gee. GREAT TASTE!

What a great time to be turning 5! We had a great day today celebrating our little Livi all day long. Thank you to ALL the well wishers that called and sent their love. Everything helped make Olivia's day the "best birthday party ever!". 

Livi's "wish granters" brought the itinerary for Olivia's "Make a Wish" trip to Disney World. Along with it they brought a tea set for Livi, a race car contraption for Aaron, a couple of cute items for me...and... chocolate cupcakes with strawberry frosting from the "Cupcakery"! YUM!

Thanks to Aunt Gee we've developed somewhat of a birthday tradition and go to Red Robin for our free birthday club burger. Livi was so excited to have her ice cream sundae brought to her with everyone singing Happy Birthday to her that when a little girl at a neighboring table got the serenade first, Livi stared around in utter confusion. It was as if we had popped her birthday balloon. She was great about it though... she simply smiled and said, throwing her hands up in the air, "isn't it fun? There are so many birthdays!"

After dinner we came home to open presents. Poor Aaron fell asleep and didn't get to participate. (Luckily she opened his before dinner.) It worked out better this way... Aaron had a tough day all day that it wasn't "his day". Here's Olivia sporting her new bag from Papa and a sweatshirt from Grandma.

 
  

She tried on everything that everyone sent and was so thrilled to learn that Junie B. Jones is a series! She kept asking if she could do more poses and twirling. Twirling was very important. Little girls definitely need to know how big things twirl. Thank you to all of our wonderful family who planned so well to have all her presents here on her birthday. It really did make everything very special.

This was a present from Uncle Adam and his friends that came down for Aaron's birthday, Zach, Matt and Mike. When they were visiting they were all very concerned with how Livi was doing and I said, as usual, "really good". I had told them that I needed to get a shirt for her that say's "Cancer Shmancer" because she's kickin' it's butt. When she unwrapped the package (with stuffing as empty soda cans, and Christmas wrapping paper... "very resourceful" says Bill) I saw a white T-shirt with pink lettering and my eyes welled up with tears. I knew exactly what it was. Thank you guys so MUCH! Livi was excited to try it on and "show her muscles"(all 34 lbs of her, on a good day). It is absolutely perfect!

Olivia, we love you. Happy 5th Birthday sweetheart!