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It's a birthday weekend in our house. Katherine will go to bed a ten-year-old and wake up eleven! We tend to celebrate birthdays for a whole weekend at our house because there's more to do than can be accomplished in one short day. Saturday we went to the mall and bought Katherine a cowboy hat. She looks so great in hats, and here in cowboy country it just seemed appropriate. Plus it goes well with her BIG present. She was there and tried it on so we know we got the right size and shape. We went to see "Eight Below" at the theatre in the mall and really enjoyed it. A couple of Katherine's best friends are "snow" dogs. Ah, if we weren't allergic, I just know we'd have at least one dog. We didn't get home until almost 10PM, a very rare event for us indeed! Sunday morning we all slept in and enjoyed a quiet morning together. Rose made hot dogs for lunch with very little help and assisted Blair in making burritos for dinner. After dinner, Katherine made sundaes for everyone. See, none of us are particularly cake eaters. And we have eight birthdays to celebrate from January to June, which makes for a LOT of cake! So instead of doing the cake thing, we each choose what we want for our treat. We've had a great time feasting on birthday sundaes, birthday pies, birthday cookies, birthday chocolate fondue, even birthday toasted marshmallows - all sporting the appropriate candles. The plan for Sunday night includes a call to Katherine's best friend who lives 2500 miles away. During the call she will open the present the friend sent so they can share the moment. Monday, Katherine's true birthday, she will choose her breakfast, lunch and dinner, be excused from all chores, and just generally be treated like the princess she is! After dinner we will have a special time as a family to tell her birth story and go through the photo album we keep for her. We'll sing many happy birthday songs to her and she'll open her gifts. Gifts? This year they include a DVD of a recent Wallace and Gromit movie, a new My Little Pony for her collection, and the BIGGIE: a fiddle and lessons. |
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