Today is Isabel’s Birthday! For the special occasion we have decided to have a Dora and Diego themed birthday party with family and friends from school tomorrow. Jeannie, Aaron, and Shianne (Shi) drove over this afternoon from Eastern Washington to help us celebrate tonight and tomorrow as well. To get her party started for today, we went out to dinner tonight with everyone. We went over to our favorite Italian restaurant the Flying Tomato. We shared a pizza with Jeannie, Aaron, Isabel and myself. While Gino had a chicken dish with pasta and Shi had mac and cheese. Yum! Afterward we headed home and opened our gifts to Isabel.
Since we had guests, Jeannie was so nice to get a family birthday photo before Isabel opened her gifts.
Since Makayla wasn’t able to attend Isabel’s party tomorrow, her mother brought her gift to school today. So we decided to let her open it with the gifts that we had gotten her.
Quick photo with Shi and Aaron…silly kiddo!
Littlest Pet Shop Dancing Dog. This little gal is so cute! She is a speaker, a flashing light dancer, and a dog (barks, growls, whines, and sneezes). She can be linked to any musical portable device (MP3) and she dances and flashes lights to the music. She also has prerecorded music as well. Just touch her nose and get ready to dance! Isabel loves it!
A few new clothes.
A new microphone… since the one from Christmas was returned for not working properly and it works well with our birthday party theme tomorrow! (Aaron loved this toy, the whole weekend he and Isabel would dance and dance and dance… Shi got in some dancing too!)
A new soccer ball for all that soccer playing that will be happening!
Makayla’s gifts to Isabel. The books were a huge hit, she (we) loves the Berenstain Bears (we have videos and now lots more books!). Thank you so very much Makayla for the special gifts. BTW… Isabel named her new doll Makayla!
Now it’s off to bed… tomorrow is going to be an even BIGGER day and we have got to get some sleep otherwise we’ll be grumpy!