Happy 4th Birthday, Amelie Muriel!

Four years ago today, the Lord brought Amelie into the world. To read about how, click here and here. We had a jam-packed, super fun day. We started out, just before 7:00am, opening gifts.

Here's the sweet birthday girl, eagerly anticipating what is inside all of these presents.

Here she is checking out her Ariel birthday card.

Next stop: pre-school! We brought zebra pudding to share with her classmates and then we were off to the dentist for a field trip! Here we are, taking our turn in the chair. Amelie wanted me to sit with her. And why am I wearing sunglasses, you wonder? At this particular dentist, the kids wear them so the light isn't so bright in their eyes. Amelie refused to wear the ones they had for her, but I wore mine anyway.

This picture needs no explanation other than that I wasn't as pleased with how this one turned out and I resorted to printing and coloring the picture of the face. Doing it with icing looked ridiculous!

But, the reality is that Amelie LOVED the cake and that was all that really mattered.

This evening, we had our freighbors and my parents over--some of Amelie's favorite people. We had pizza and pickles and pears for dinner.

She didn't want to blow out the candles, however. Far too much attention. I think I blew out three of them and my asthmatic dad blew out the fourth one from across the table.

I LOVE this picture. We did it with the timer right before the girls went to bed. It isn't particularly good of any of us, it's just fun. It truly sums up the day that we had.