Addie's 4th Birthday

Well, I don't know if you can say it was just her day, more like her whole weekend. Boy, did we celebrate. Saturday we had her friend birthday party. We went to Build-a-Bear store. They did a fantastic job with the girls. Addie invited 4 friends. The store employee who led our party sat all the girls down first to learn names and do some fun activities. Then it was off to pick their animal they were going to make. I had a price point for the kids and they did an excellent job directing the kids to stay with in. They showed them the ones they could choose from. After all animals were picked and named (Addie named hers Addie :) ) they led the girls to the area where they could pick an outfit for their animal. Let me tell you this was a big decision. It was so neat because all 5 girls picked a different outfit. Next they led the girls to pick out a heart to stuff inside their animal. It was so cute because the party leader had the girls doing different things to the hearts to get them ready to put inside. See the video. Somethings were rub it on your forehead so your animal is super smart.... Then she had all the girls take an additional heart to make a birthday wish for Addie to stuff inside her bear. Addie thought it was pretty neat. Then it was time to stuff. The girls one by one had to push the pedal to blow all the stuffing into their animal. Once it was stuffed and stitched up they need to brush and blow out their new friend. Once that was done the outfits could be put on. Once all were dressed and ready for the party she brought the girls over to the bench area where she led the whole store of employees and shoppers in singing happy birthday to Addie. She was a little embarrassed at the time, but sang and talked about it later that night. We then headed out to the mall area where we had claimed a table. We ate her"fancy" Dora cake from this fabulous bakery I found that does all allergy free cakes. It was actually really good. The cake was the thing Addie will tell you was her favorite part. Once cake was eaten it was time to open presents. She had a blast. I would highly recommend a Build-a-Bear party especially at the 4 year old age. I saw two of her friends today, both of which were carrying around their new stuffed animal. Needless to say she was pretty tuckered out by the end of the day. She slept in her in her new Hello Kitty sleeping bag with her Addie bear.

Then comes her actual birthday. We got up and opened her family birthday presents. Then it was off to McDonald's to play in the play area. We just cheat and bring our own food. Once had our fill we went to the 101 Market to do the Halloween activities and pick out pumpkins. She got to pick her favorite meal for supper (Chicken Wings) and then we lit up the other half of her cake with candles, since we couldn't use candles at the mall and by her request we sang Happy Birthday. She had a blast and we had a blast seeing her smile oh so big. Great weekend.