Our 4-Year Old Fairy

Happy Birthday to our sweet 4-year old Anna! I truly can't believe she is so big. She has gone from toddler to big girl in a blink of an eye. Love every bit of her!

We started out her birthday singing to her with her special breakfast "cake" of orange rolls. Grandma G came to town especially for her big day and we're always glad to have her around.

Anna was so excited for her fairy party. She had changed her mind a million times between a princess party and a minnie mouse party. Then suddenly that was all out the window and it was all about fairies. I was happy to oblige. We invited all of her little friends to Kelly Hollow and the festivities began.

Each girl got a new fairy name and Anna had to be Silver Mist, her favorite fairy from the Tinkerbell movie. Then we did a fairy treasure hunt to gather all the pieces of their fairy costumes.

And no fairy is complete without some pixie dust! I sprinkled some "pixie dust" on each of their heads so we could fly.

We played Anna's favorite game from preschool - "Dance any way you want to, stop when I say FREEZE!" and flew and danced around the room to Anna's favorite songs. We had some technical difficulties with the music since we are our probably behind a decade with our digital music players, but it all worked out. :) We also played musical leaves.

They were hungry after all that dancing so it was time for some fairy treats and some punch.

(Anna, Sierra, Evie, Shea, Ella, Madeline, and Ansley)

Then they decorated there own "flower" (cupcake) and we sang Happy Birthday to the birthday girl.
She gets so excited but then also embarrassed when everyone is singing to her, so she looks like this: so cute.

I was on a mission to bring back "Heavy, heavy hangover" so they learned how to play and I think it was a hit. Anna wished everyone really BIG things. Like a really BIG unicorn, or BIG boat, or BIG castle.

It was a magical day. And I'm still sweeping up glitter and probably will be until next year. But it's okay. I love this age of imagination and magic. I don't know what I would do without this little girl. Each year just gets better and better with her.

Happy Birthday Anna!

Love you so, so, so much!