Capes and Castles

Emmy told me several months ago when I asked her what she wanted to do for her birthday that she wanted "Tiana, Snow White, Rapunzel, and Spiderman to come to her party.) I wasn't quite sure what to do with that =) Every year I say I'm going to tone it down and well, we know how that goes.

It's hard to believe that Emmy is 4! She swears to me that she'll go ahead and turn 5 but then she's not getting any older than that! We'll see how that's goes. She's pretty much the size of a 6 year old and surprises me all the time with the adult things she says.. and then she'll act like a 2 year old. Guess that's the beauty of 4!

Here's my Rapunzel and her little brother Superman.

As a favor for all of her guests Emmy sat for an hour and a half and hand wrote every single Thank You topper for 27 party favors. I thought she would get bored after 3 but she really got in to it. By the end her letters were much better, and what a special way to practice being grateful.This is a special memory for me.

 Emmy was very in to helping with all the preparations. Since it's a birthday, we had to have the cheese puffs! (Beckett now calls these my balls and we had to throw away all that were left over because he literally wouldn't eat anything but cheese balls as long as they were in the house. He would hunt them down and find them everywhere we hid them)

This pinterest project got al little nuts. There were almost 400 suckers on this ball. We will be eating suckers for a LONG LONG time. The Dentist will be so happy with us!

Emmy set a superhero and princess table for all of her friends to have a tea party with Cinderella and Superman. 

 We also made some photo backdrops to take pics and you know we had to have a castle!

 But for some reason the highlight of the party seemed to be Emmy's old "fat car" that we haven't played with in about 6 months. The kids couldn't get enough of it!

 After everyone was settled in and had jumped a bit, look who the mailman brought!

 Emmy was so excited to meet Cinderella. Her friend from school Perri ran SCREAMING all the way down the driveway to tell everyone the she was there.

 Cinderella started by singing everyone her story. She had a beautiful voice!Amazingly the kids sat still to hear the story.

Then Superman told his story as well. Beckett REALLY got into that. He said - HEY you look like me.

Then they all sat down for a game of Princess Superhero Duck Duck Goose. 

Then it was time for the tea party! Emmy is not one to get too excited or show a lot of emotion. She will barely even smile in a picture. Believe it or not, this is Emmy having an ABSOLUTELY fantastic time =) 

But probably the highlight for her was when Cinderlla poured pink tea for her to give to all of her friends. Nothing makes her happier than organizing or distributing things. 

 After the tea party Cinderella and Superman had time for a few pictures.

Emmy even WILLINGLY took some with Cinderella. That's when i knew we had a hit . This NEVER happens. 

I'm so glad we got to give her an experience I know she'll remember for a long time.  Emmy had a FABULOUS time! And all the little princesses agree. 

It's the Little Saint Nick

We switched to a new dance studio this year (and will promptly be going back to the other one next year!) and this dance school does a Christmas Dance Recital. Emmy performed a tap dance to The Beach Boys "Little Saint Nick". Makeup went MUCH better. I know she is my daughter, but I can't help but think she is just exceptionally beautiful. Especially with those big red lips (she had wiped them all off my then!)

At the last recital she was so excited about flowers so everyone brought her a ton. Guess what, she could care less this time. She is so crazy!

 She had to wear this shirt that would just not stay down. So that led to a few tummy flashes on stage! This was a little more of a low key recital and the teacher danced on stage with the girls. Emmy did her fair share of looking (and digging in her ear - poor thing), but she knew the dance!

 And even got a little sass in there. I think for the big rehearsal we'll practice smiling and looking up the whole time!

 

likes performing very much. I think we'll be doing dance for a while.

Aggie in training...

A proud day for Blake. We finally decided to risk it and take Emmy to her first Aggie game! We figured that we would make it maybe half a game at the longest, make ten trips to the bathroom, and packed a giant bag of distraction. We practiced all the yells on the way up and made sure she knew just what to do when.

Our first stop was to grab everyone some new gear! Of course the temperature dropped about 20 degrees overnight. Once we were all suited up, we headed over to the stadium. Emmy was pretty pumped from the minute we got there! We did a quick tour of the MSC before heading in to the stadium. 

She could barely wait to go see the field.

She was in to understanding what they were doing and Blake kept having her look for Johnny football. The best part had to have been when we did the War Hymn for the first time. Her eyes got giant and she just stared at what everyone was doing.

 I do have to say that it was REALLY nice to have a girl to talk to at the game. Someone who wasn't just in to talking stats. Turns out we were worried about nothing. We made it the ENTIRE game and she was engaged and paid attention the entire time. Blake was so proud.

Blake swears that she gave him the following recap the next day at bed. I'm thinking it might be a TAD embellished, but we'll let him have his moment..."Daddy, there was a red team and white team. The red team was the Aggies, and the white team was the Tigers. The best player was Johnny... He was #2. The Aggies won. The Tigers didn't win because they didn't have a Johnny on their team."

Turkey Day

Disney on Ice

Emmy got a very special treat when GiGi treated her to Disney on Ice for her birthday. She even got to go to the Disney Store and pick out a brand new princess dress. She picked Rapunzel. 

 We got there and she was excited, but I don't think she really knew what the expect. Since we got there a little early, she had time to get acquainted with the ice and the stage.

 ok, we got there a LOT early.

 But that gave us time to get lots of stuff and a sno cone. I bet that she would love the flashy light and GiGi bet she would love the program. GiGi won. We pored over the program, used it throughout the show, and are STILL pouring over the program just about daily a month later. We've looked at all the ice skaters skates, guessed which one of the cast was which prince or princess,and named every single character on every page. Who knew that a program was SO entertaining.

We had fabulous seats. We really got an up close and personal look at the characters.

Emmy is a hard one to read. She's never going to gush or glow over something in the moment. The way you know she liked it that she keeps talking about it or bringing it up later. This one was a hit! We went home and made the barbies an ice skaing rink, and are still looking at the program daily.

I would say it was a hit!