After much deliberating in the end we decided to have her party at the same park where we had her birthday last year, Kirk Park here in the Highlands. There's plenty of room for the kids to run and play, and the covered gazebo picnic area is a great place to chat and eat cake. We weren't sure what the weather was going to do, like last year the forecast was cooler with a chance of rain. So, like last year we decided to pray for good weather and that if it was going to rain, that it would wait until AFTER Kara's party. Like last year it did not rain (YAY!) during the party, and after the record breaking heat wave we'd been through recently most everyone enjoyed the cooler temperature. I'm glad we picked such a close location because Kara, not understanding exactly what was happening, became very distressed when we took the cake and Doritos to the car, and we spent the entire 2 minute car ride reassuring her that she could eat them when we got the the park. It was a fun day and we enjoyed sharing this milestone with so many of our friends.
Some fun things about Kara.
-she is petite for her age, her weight is in the 10th percentile and wears mostly size 18 month clothes
-she to loves to wear dresses and I have to hide her newer dresses from her to keep them from becoming play clothes before she's worn them to church at least a couple times
-some of her favorite toys are her princess dolls and she likes pretty much anything with Disney Princesses
-she loves animals, especially dogs and besides food and toys names of animals make up a big chunk of her vocabulary
-she likes to watch her sign language video and knows the signs for "daddy, mommy, baby, bath, blanket, friend, more, eat, drink, kiss, ball, play, story and friend"
-if she she sees a slug or an ant or some other bug on the ground she squats down to watch it
-she almost always puts "a" in front of words when she's talking , "a swing" "a doll" "a milk" "a juice" "a princess" "a sammie" (sandwich)"a rice" "a bean" "a pink" "a night night"
-she loves music and dancing and has started to sing along a little bit to some of the songs I sing with her or songs from music class, sometimes in the car she will entertain herself by singing a medley of the words that she remembers from songs all rolled into one new song "i know ,dream... gulp gulp gulp... star.. e i e i o ... ashes ashes... rock..." ( I know you - from Sleeping Beauty, slippery fish, twinkle twinkle little star, old mac donald, ring around the rosey, the wise man) it's different every time, but about like that
-her favorite color is pink, purple is a close second, but she calls that pink too
-she loves Frosted Mini Wheats and asks for them for breakfast every morning
-she is a total cuddlebug and gives the bestest hugs!
-she loves to "help" mom sweep the kitchen and to wear mom's shoes, especially the high heals
1 comment:
Happy Birthday kara! I love the last picture it's such a great smile. Great idea to list things about her. You forget all of their little adorable phases so quickly because they are always changing.
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