Turning 4 Round One…

We celebrated 4 twice this year, once in Bedford and once in Cypress. Granny wasn’t able to travel so we brought the party to her. The party was mostly family and Tess had a lot of fun. We came in Thursday night and celebrated Mona’s birthday on Friday. Tess and I took her to a ceramic painting place where you can also mosaic. I didn’t get a picture of her masterpiece but fun was had by all.

From the moment we arrived Tess started getting birthday presents, to say this child might be a little spoiled by her grandparents is an understatement. She loved that her presents were spread out and she had time to play with each one before opening the next one. This year she really got into the presents, making a list of her own and she lit up when she saw something that she had put on her list. It was really neat.

Aunt Alicia and Cody fishing pole, which she had been wanting for a long time. We met them at a stocked lake that night to test it out. We had been out to this lake with them before but Tess now had her own pole to test out and she was super excited. Tess didn’t realize the patience required for fishing. She also didn’t realize how slimy fish were. 

Alicia caught a fish on her pole and let Tess reel it in, once she got the fish in she dropped the pole and ran. We have used the pole at home but she has informed me that if she catches a fish daddy will have to take it off the hook.

Saturday was party day, we brought our blow up water slide with us and as usual it was a big hit with the kids. The kids played, and ate and played some more. I think they were all pretty tuckered out by the end of the party. 

Its nice that even though Tess doesn't see her distant cousins all that much she still gets along with them really well when they are all together. 

We decided to go with a cookie cake this year, Tess loves cookies and it worked out pretty well. We ate cookie cake and ice cream, opened presents and then said our good byes. We cleaned up the house and everyone had rest time.

We of course had to get our dog picture before we left. We had a good first party, round two was the following weekend.