Zoe's 4th birthday

None of us can believe that our little Zoe has just turned 4 years old.  This  year she gets TWO birthdays, one on her real birthday, and one on Saturday when she has her party at Red Light Green Light (which is a kids' playplace here in town).  Sunday morning she woke up and promptly put on her princess dressup and birthday crown from last year (which Mattie made her).  She was ready for her party!  I reminded her that it was Sunday, church day, and that she got her second birthday on the next Saturday.  She was mollified because she REALLY wanted to wear this pretty white dress to church, and I won't let her wear it to play in.  So she had been waiting for that. 

Here she is opening some little animals that go in a dog hotel.  She loves them. :)




She got some really cute shoes & leggings from my parents.  Mom knows that Zoe is a shoe lover!  And Zoe actually has been wearing tights out, which has never happened in our family before.  She loves to wear pretty skirts and dress-ups.




Since we're having a birthday party on Saturday, we are saving her exciting fairy village cake for then.  I told her I would make her whatever she wanted for her real birthday, another cake or cookies or anything.  She chose Krispy Kreme donuts.  Yum!  (And so easy!)




Later she got to open more presents.  Here she is getting a carriage and horses and furniture for her castle that she got at Christmas time.  She was totally enchanted by all the sparkles, glitter, and she thinks one of the horses is a unicorn, so that is especially fun. 




Wow, that is a lot of sparkly toys all together!


The big kids were so nice, they played castle with her for a long time.  Then Mattie very thoughtfully gave her a bunch of her old toys (the camera was put away by this time).  And we ate her requested dinner of "eggs - the regular kind" (which means hard boiled), "a-getti" and avocados.  What a fun combination!  Everyone was so kind to Zoe - she had a wonderful birthday!  Thank you!