This is how is started this morning…waking up to her Candy Poster on her door. This is a new tradition that I started this year that I shamelessly stole from my sister Savvy (today she said on her blog "imitation is a form of flattery"..phew) We wrote 10 things that we loved about Beauty and stuck a candy on it for each year represented. She was soo happy-she adores candy. What a nice way to start your day when you are a candy addict!
Then the rest of our birthday traditions which we do every year:
We all pile in her bed super early and wake her up with kisses and hugs. We give Beauty a birthday basket. She gets one bigger gift and a bunch of smaller gifts in a basket. Her two brothers went shopping for her too and spent more money than they have ever spent in their lives on their little sister.
I gave her a game for her DS that has Selena Gomez on the front but “Oh my God Mom! I hate Selena-she is my enemy. She is going out with my lover boy Justin Beiber-I can’t possibly like play this game!”
Thank goodness I also got her some other stuff and a cute outfit from NYC that my stylist fashionsita friend picked up last weekend.
Then she came downstairs and was surprised by what happens to her every year on her birthday and for which she insists continues to happen when she is absolutely not expecting it:
We can't wait until she is all grown up and has a fancy and chic business suit out in the corporate world one day. Her Dad swears he will go to the boardroom and smash a pie in her face forever!
Then her Dad cooks her the next letter in her name in the form of a pancake and she eats it with syrup (we started late only three years ago-so no her name is not more than 10 letter long. Although to keep this tradition long term- we will be doing, first name, middle name and last name)
Then she is off to school for the day where her teacher is making her go to recuperation for math at lunch even though she had a 78% on her test! Meanie eh? Thankfully I put a little treat and special note in her lunch to cheer her up.
In the evening her birthday dinner where Nana-Didi comes and her Aunt and Cousin came this year too. The birthday girl chooses the meal of her choice. Hers was pesto pasta, eggrolls, Greek salad, Shirley Temples to drink, ketchup chips, cranberry filos and tzicki.
An Angel cake for dessert which I made with Bear. This is a new tradition that I personally make their birthdays cakes . We put food coloring in it to make it purple (Justin Beiber’s favorite color!) and put little M& M’s and sparkles in it. I wanted to hide a big gumball ,but was too scared someone would choke.
Oh ya almost forgot her favorite part about birthdays: No chores or cleaning up. She makes whatever mess she wants and we are her slaves and clean it up.
Her celebration with a few school friends is in a week on a Friday night and they are signed up for an acrobatic course at a circus training institute..
So my baby girl is 10 now. Double digits!! I remember wanting her so much I think I dreamed her to life. I am not sure any desire was as strong in me as to have a daughter. And I am so very happy we did-I cannot even imagine life without our baby girl. Happy Birthday Beauty!!!!!!
