Celebrating good times

After dinner the family headed back to our house for fajitas, cake, and some presents.  This has been may favorite year by far for opening presents.  You could actually tell how much she enjoyed opening everything.  We were good a regulating how much we let her open and stopped when she hit the "done" part of it and just went through the motions.  She was exhausted by the end of the day and really didn't want to go to sleep. 

A gift from her mommy and daddy

This year we were pretty sure we knew we wanted to get her something for her to play with outside we just weren't quit sure what that thing would be.  She loves to be outside and has used the one she got for her second birthday to the point of breaking it so we knew she would love anything new that might come her way.  After lots of research we came across this one.  It is a fairly new house to hit the stores so we needed to make sure it would work.  Thankfully it is perfect.  With the Texas heat I loved the idea of the open walls.  The fence can be taken apart and put back together and she can plant real flowers in the pots on the back.  Their is a play kitchen, an area to build and a phone.  She loves the mailbox and checks it often.  Once I get my act together I may actually put some in there for her to find.  Don't hold your breath for that to happen any time soon. 

Candle...What candle?!?

After Build A Bear we hiked it across the mall to the food court to enjoy Hello Kitty cupcakes/ice cream and a ride on the Merry Go Round before it was time to go home.  Thanks everyone for making Kaylie's 4th birthday one to remember!  Next year I will make sure to put the candle somewhere I can find. it.   

Making bears

Once over in the stuffing area each kid is given two hearts.  They kiss each one and then one is placed next to their bear and the other is put inside Kaylie's bear so it can have a little piece of everyone that was there to help her celebrate.  All said and done her bear has a lot of love. 

Since Kaylie was the birthday girl she got to do everything first.  When she went to step on the pedal to stuff her bear she held her ears to avoid the noise.  Apparently this started a trend because several others proceeded to do the same.  Afterwards they were able to bathe, brush, blow dry, and dress their bears.  The best part of the entire thing was seeing all the different outfits each child picked. 

The hearts that were put into her bear. 

Cousin Eli and Jessica working on Eli's firefighter bear.  Love how sweet this picture is.

She picked everything Hello Kitty.  All the way down to the bear's underwear.  The only thing that wasn't Hello Kitty were Blue Bear's shoes.  Those shoes matched her Twinkle Toes almost to a tee.  She was so happy to get those. 

 Getting help with the bear's clothes. 

 

Ms. Kristin taking a moment to capture herself. 

Garrett loving on his bear.  He is loving the Rangers outfit Aunt Chris got him.

Trying to get a picture with a bunch of little ones is not easy.  After many attempts we were able to get a good one for the scrapbook.