It started at little before midnight on Sept 8th: We decorated and put out her presents.
At midnight we sang "Happy B-day to Lex ..while she a had a bowl of strawberry ice cream served with a candle! She then decided to open one gift...it turned out to be...
Picturecka! which lead to a few early morning rounds of fun game playing .
She also was the winner of our first jelly bean game...Guess How Many...she guessed 99 and was spot on...Hooray Lex...they where the sour variety her all time fav!!! I think we all where in bed by 2am!?! I think...Wilks and Liv are the real night owls in our house.
In the morning I baked cupcakes and set out our first activity: beads for making wishing bracelets.
Liv just waking up and ready for breakfast...is checking out her goody bag!
Wilkes makes a cool necklace that says "Will is cool"
Here's Lex's bracelet which says Laugh, Believe, Dream....all that I hope she is blessed with for all of her years...lots of laughter, always to believe in herself, and to never give up on her dreams!
Next came opening presents... make-up, webkinz and clothes oh my!
she loved the clothes and was so surprised to get a webkinz deer from Liv ( it's retired and very hard to come by) we filmed most of the gift opening and her reactions and commentary was priceless
A blue glass prism..paper weight...she'd been conveting at a local museum gift shop for about a year! We start to make plans to go to Target so she can pick out her camera later in the day!
Time to play with all the new stuff...
About a hour later she decides to get dressed in some of her new b-day fashions...including a new knit hip hat!
Next came our jelly bean tasting challenge...13 flavs in all!
Eeew....not liking this one...it turned out to be root beer flavor!
Liv takes her turn........
and Wilks...the consummate chef must cleanse his palette in between each taste...too funny!
and the winner... by one point.... the b-day girl... now with her new fake hair in!
More exploring of her new stuff...this is a cool make -up sketching book.
We went to CC's to do the arcade thang...it wasn't crowded (first day of school for most and heavy rains) we had a ton of fun...and what made this sooo great was the girls each had way over 2000 points (from all the past visits over the years) to trade in... they both chose great prizes, Liv got a cool water ball and Lex got a Bratz baby animal set and they still both have about 1000 points left.
After CC fun we headed to Toys R US because Lex had wallet full of b-day money and her $3 Geoffry B-day club gift card....long story short she circled the store about 4 times...with no clue of what she wanted...she ended up at the clearance shelf in front of the registers...she bought 3 boxes of Kashi cereal and a large bar size Reece's' for a grand total of .20 cents after her GC...no kidding...LOL...I think all this couponing is rubbing off on her! Next we headed to Target...and after much deliberation...she went with her 1st choice and got a cool Sony camera!
By the time we got home it was dark out...I put Lex's B-day dinner choice in the oven, to heat up and we got busy with the decorating of the cupcakes...yummy fun...Lex had fun making cool colors with the frosting!
Here's our finished product....later we added candles and a darkened room and some joyous singing voices!
Baked Ziti dinner hot and delish!
After dinner and b-day celebration song its cupcake eating time...oh yeah!
Then outside for our last game: a jelly bean race...nine on a spoon held by the teeth...Liv was the big winner this time...all though Wilkes and I impressively dropped none!!!
One last card around 10:30 pm this one sang to her..."yoo make me feel so goo ee goo ee goo."
This was the last scene I saw...the girls.... happily playing......before I headed up to bed just around midnight.
Happy 9th Birthday ! Baby Girl!
