The princess and her "princess" bear get ready for the celebration!
Look! Birthday Balloons fit for a princess!
Time for decorating the Princess cake!
Now.. a few photos to capture our little Valentine/Princess on her special day..
The princess takes time to pose with her big sister..
After the Princess's favorite food of pizza, her guests arrived and got ready to blow out the candles on her specially princess decorated cake! (Are we seeing a theme here?)
Candles are all blown out!
A birthday card from PopPop arrived in the mail with money for the Princess!
Thanks PopPop!
As you can guess, Emma had a "Princess" themed birthday party this year! She loves anything to do with any of the Disney Princesses! Her favorites are Belle, Cinderella and Ariel. We had a small get together with a few of Emma's favorite people- Catie, Judah and Nana. She was so excited to have them over to help celebrate her special day!
And boy.. is she glad that she's now FOUR! Over the past few weeks, newly four-year-old Esther has had a lot of fun teasing her sister that she is older, and that Emma is "only three" or "a baby." But now that Emma's four also, there shouldn't be any more teasing! Boy.. it's going to be fun when Esther turns 18 first! I can already imagine what she'll do to her sister.. but good thing I'll be gone by then!!
A lot of people have asked us if February 14th is Emma's actual birthday. Truth is, we really have no idea! She could have been born the 13th, the 10th.. who knows! All we do know is that Emma's paperwork says she was found on February 15th and they guessed she had been born the day before, probably by the way her umbilical cord looked. Emma's birth parents didn't leave a note with her, so we'll never know for sure when she was actually born. But, I think Valentine's Day is a pretty cool day to have a birthday on! We actually believe Emma may even be a few months younger than she actually is. There was very little information in Emma's medical reports compared to the information our travel group's children had. And it's common for orphanage's to use false/incorrect information in medical reports because they have so many children. Developmentally, she acts much more like a 3-3 1/2 year old than a just turned four year old. But, we're keeping her birth date for now.. I'm sure she'll appreciate that when she's older!
We didn't really have a "birthday party" for the girls this year. We did have a get together of a few of our close friends for Esther's birthday in January.. mainly because it was a celebration of her first birthday with us. Then, we took the girls to Disney to celebrate their birthdays in late January. Next year we'll have a joint birthday party for the girls and that's probably what we'll keep doing until they are older and voice their opinions!!
And boy.. is she glad that she's now FOUR! Over the past few weeks, newly four-year-old Esther has had a lot of fun teasing her sister that she is older, and that Emma is "only three" or "a baby." But now that Emma's four also, there shouldn't be any more teasing! Boy.. it's going to be fun when Esther turns 18 first! I can already imagine what she'll do to her sister.. but good thing I'll be gone by then!!
A lot of people have asked us if February 14th is Emma's actual birthday. Truth is, we really have no idea! She could have been born the 13th, the 10th.. who knows! All we do know is that Emma's paperwork says she was found on February 15th and they guessed she had been born the day before, probably by the way her umbilical cord looked. Emma's birth parents didn't leave a note with her, so we'll never know for sure when she was actually born. But, I think Valentine's Day is a pretty cool day to have a birthday on! We actually believe Emma may even be a few months younger than she actually is. There was very little information in Emma's medical reports compared to the information our travel group's children had. And it's common for orphanage's to use false/incorrect information in medical reports because they have so many children. Developmentally, she acts much more like a 3-3 1/2 year old than a just turned four year old. But, we're keeping her birth date for now.. I'm sure she'll appreciate that when she's older!
We didn't really have a "birthday party" for the girls this year. We did have a get together of a few of our close friends for Esther's birthday in January.. mainly because it was a celebration of her first birthday with us. Then, we took the girls to Disney to celebrate their birthdays in late January. Next year we'll have a joint birthday party for the girls and that's probably what we'll keep doing until they are older and voice their opinions!!
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