Birthday Festivities

Sometimes it is really fun to be the littlest cousin.  The big girls fawn all over you, pass down cute clothes and princess attire, and are great helpers when it comes to family celebrations.  When your birthday happens to fall right after the Christmas holidays, it's a GREAT reason to celebrate with your cousins over Winter Break!  In fact, Leah now anticipates our annual Williamsburg tradition and this year, called it her "mini birthday party".  

Last Monday morning, Leah's "mini birthday party" served as the grand finale to our wonderful Winterhoff Christmas Weekend in Williamsburg (blog post coming soon!).  Leah opened her special presents from her aunts, uncles, and cousins before declaring that she wanted to "take a break" from presents and have the special birthday treats that Bean made:

 Our birthday girl absolutely ate up all of the attention and everyone loved their "breakfast cupcakes" and hot chocolate: 

Next, Leah decided to return to the important business of presents and opened her gifts from Bean and Poppy, which included a new "big girl" bike!   B&P had secretly stowed this present in our attic the last time they visited us and gave Leah a picture of her bike at the "mini party", telling her that it would be waiting for her at our house.  We drove home later that afternoon, unpacked, and put the kids to bed.  Sure enough, the very instant that Leah woke up the next morning, she remembered her bike, and the first words out of her mouth were:

"Mommy, I CAN'T WAIT to ride my new bike!"



Presents from Bean and Poppy.

Leah is also the Star of the Day at preschool today and is celebrating her birthday there with her classmates.   She helped me make "Party Bananas" last night to take in for her special birthday snack, and we love how adorable they are:

Our sweet girl certainly has had a fun time celebrating her birthday over the past couple of weeks.  What fun it is to be 4!