Hannah turned four last week. She was very sad that none of her friends were going to be at her party. She had cried about it one night. I realized that she needed to have a very special birthday celebration to make up for the lack of friends. The best person to celebrate a special birthday with is Aunt Bonnie. She has a way of being joyous that is infectious. So we plotted and planned our travels in order to be in Boulder, CO for the day of Hannah's birthday. We rolled in with a day to spare. We managed to be driving towards Denver just as the first presidential debate was happening. I thought this was particularly fitting since we seemed to be running into election events through out our journey. The high winds and very rural radio reception made it hard for us to hear the debate, but we got the gist. We got to Boulder with a day to recover from the journey before preparing for our grand celebration.
We had a great day and a very fun party for Hannah. We found a really nice chocolate shop called Piece, Love, and Chocolate where we bought cupcakes and truffles, we found presents at a couple of different children's stores in town, ate crepes for lunch (Hannah got her's for free because it was her birthday), and bought a lovely feast and pink and purple flowers for the party.
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| Izzy Chose a Silk Crown For Hannah for Her Birthday. |
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| They sat next to each other at lunch, and Izzy was sweet to Hannah since it was her birthday. |
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| They're such a funny pair. |
Izzy chose a silk crown as his present to Hannah, Eli chose a stuffed, knit panda, I had found a doll for her back in Woodstock that I had managed to keep secret. While we were out buying party supplies Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Eric found Hannah a beautiful ballet outfit that once put on her she refused to be without even into the following day.
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| It's really hard to wait to open presents. |
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| Struggling with the ribbon. |
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| It's a doll from Mama and Dada. |
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| Something from Uncle Eric and Aunt Bonnie. |
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| Ballet Clothes. |
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| Now she can dance!! |
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| Introducing the new toys, Panda and the Doll known as Hannah. |
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| Jumping for Joy |
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| Opening Nana's Package. The tape is hard and needs Dada's help. |
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| Reading Nana's Card. |
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| Getting help from Izzy with the ribbon. |
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| Ballet Girl |
Nana and Papa had sent a care package ahead with some more gifts.
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| Ballet Girl with Princess Cards. |
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| Playing Uncle Eric's Piano |
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| Dancing With Eli |
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| A tricky Ballet move. |
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| Aunt Bonnie and Hannah explore the Madeline doll from Nana. |
So we feasted, then opened presents, then had cupcakes and chocolate.
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| Blowing out the candles |
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| A Chocolate Feast. |
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| Just before she got chocolate on the pink leotard. |
After all of the feasting Uncle Eric played bits from the Nutcracker Ballet on the piano and Izzy and Hannah danced and danced.
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| Dancing with Izzy. |
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| Nutcracker Suite, but a little more violent. |
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| A happy dancer. |
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| Chocolate faced Hannah |
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| Chocolate faced Izzy |
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| Trying to go to bed in her Ballet clothes. |
It was a beautiful birthday. And now Hannah is 4!
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| Once again in her ballet clothes the next morning for breakfast. |
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| Eating at her very own little table that Bonnie set up for her. |
Thanks for letting us celebrate with Hannah through the blog. Happy Birthday to her! p.s. - What is the sand timer for?
ReplyDeleteLove,
Nicole
The night before we had gone to dinner at a seriously cool Tea Room in Boulder that was given to the city by their sister city in one of the "stans" I forget which. When they served the tea they brought a 3 minute timer. The kids became completely in love with this sand timer, so my aunt found a couple and gave them to the boys. They were the favorite toy of the week. Izzy especially kept timing things, like his water, or the sound of chocolate... that sort of thing.
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