On Eleri's actual birthday, we celebrated by allowing her to eat Fruit Loops for breakfast! Then Mali gave Eleri the presents she had picked out for her; a stuffed animal puppy "since she likes puppies" and a pink sippy cup. We also gave Eleri one of her presents, cute suede Stride Rite shoes. She did like them and carried them around trying to get me to put them on her. Then we played outside in the snow! That afternoon, Eric baked chocolate chip cookies and we sang Happy Birthday to her and let her "blow out" her candle and eat the cookie. She kept looking at me and Eric as if to say "can I eat this?" Yesterday, we had her birthday party. We are thankful for everyone that came especially with the crazy amount of snow we got. Mimi, Papa, Grandpa, Nana, Aunt Megan and Uncle Chris, Uncle Brandon and Liza all came for her birthday. Eleri received an Elmo farm activity center, a Dr. Seuss Book, a big, pink stuffed bear and two cute outfits, a pink purse, a pink Nalgene sippy cup, and a Radio Flyer wagon/stroller. We had fun watching her and Mali play together with the new toys. Mali was having a hard time realizing that everything was for Eleri, but Eleri gladly shared with her big sister. Eleri had a turquoise giant cupcake cake and turqouoise cake bites that didn't turn out anywhere near as pretty as the recipe picture. I thought a shade of blue would be better than a shade of pink since Mali's favorite color is pink, that way Eleri could be different. We all sang Happy Birthday to her and Eleri blew out the candle for her. Eleri enjoyed the frosting on her cake, but was fairly dainty about it all. Eric made gourmet hot dogs and we enjoyed watching the girls play until everyone had to get on the road to get home before the roads iced over again.
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