Monday, December 10, 2012

She Had A Birthday...

Shout Hooray!!!
My Cute & Crazy Claire turned 4 last week!
 
We had her party the Friday before.
(Before you go thinking I went all crazy, pretty much all my decorations were things I had kept from previous parties. The banner was from her Care-Bear party 2 years ago, the cupcake stand from Reese's 2nd bday, blah, blah-blah, blah-blah.)
Here's Claire at about 1:00 telling me she was going to wait right there all day.  The party was at 5:30.  Pure torture to sit there looking at all that sugar!
She was cracking me up with all her random party theme ideas. It started with a "Pumpkin Heart Party", then just a "Heart Party", then a "Christmas Party", and finally the day before, "Mom, actually, I just realized that I like libraries!" What?!  I had to tell her no to the last minute library switch since I had already started gathering Winter/Christmasy things, but it certainly gave me a good laugh!

Speaking of laugh....go ahead when you look at my cupcake topper.  I did. I kind of thought it looked like a 5 year old did it.  Claire loved it even so. (Our birthday hat candles came in handy as Claire's one request was that there not be a candle poking a hole through it all.)

The night finally arrived and all her cute little buddies trickled in...

After a quick dinner of pizza, the fun began...
Pin the Nose on the Snowman
(where I may have spun the children a tad too much...check out Reese)

Don't Eat Santa's Cookies (Don't Eat Pete)

Donut Eating Contest

Presents
And cake, of course...
 
Actual Birthday Morning

Later that Night....

 
Calls from Grandparents
(Grandma Bjorkman)
(Momoo & Dadoo)
 
This little girl is seriously full of SO much personality! Don't you ever wish that everyone could see what you see in your little ones?! I am constantly wishing that! And while Claire is currently winning the prize of clingiest and most challenging little person in our household, she is also about to win a huge trophy for the making-me-laugh-daily-and-I-just-want-to-squeeze-her contest!

Just to give you a bit of a glimpse of some of the fun she adds to our family, here's a quick clip of a rock concert she gave me a few days ago...

"The letter 'C'..." Ha!
Dang, I love her!

9 comments:

The Mattinson's said...

Haha. She is a little fire. We miss seeing. Tell Claire we said happy birthday!

Marissa Marie said...

She's good! The next Taylor Swift?

Cynthia said...

Oh my gosh, I want to be one of your kids. Partially so I can have killer birthday parties, and partially so I can have Claire as my sister.

Andrea said...

I love that girl! Happy birthday, Claire!!

Chelsea said...

So cute! I love that music video! I really need to get my camera out more. Great job with the party! She is such a cutie!

Heidi said...

Glad you could finally push the post button there ;o). It looks like a very fun party. Donut eating contest! I'm going to have to use that one in the future! And thanks for sharing the video. I haven't heard her voice in a while. She'd getting so grown up (sniff).

Unknown said...

She's an absolute doll and you do birthdays right! Holy smokes. I have party-throwing envy. You rock.

Dadra said...

She is so adorable. What a cutie-pie you have there!!

Alanya/Ally said...

I was laughing so hard at that rock out clip I had to watch it again. I can't believe she's four already. It seems like only yesterday you had her. Btw, we got your family Christmas card in the mail today and the girls were asking all sorts of things about you and the family. It was fun to go down memory lane and think of the good times in Colorado. WE Sure miss you guys and love you lots!