Geeg Turns the Big 0-5

hi, i'm five and kind of a big deal

Our little lass turned five last month.  Translation: GG instantly took us up on our promise that she could have a 'for realsies' birthday party.  At first she wanted to go to a bouncy house or the children's museum but after a little price shopping we managed to convince her that really what she wanted was to go bowling with her princess friends.  YES, you WANT to go bowling.

So she invited five friends to join for bowl-a-thon 2013.  The morning started with me hitting up Sendik's to pick up the Hello Kitty cake I had ordered earlier that week.  Imagine the poor bakery guy who had to tell me that they had lost my order.  About 90 minutes before the party started.  But yay Sendik's for making it right and getting another one ready lickety split and for a much better price of $0.  Other than that the Hello Kitty decor was packed and our little bowlers were ready to kill some pins.

that's a lot of tiny shoes

look at these little cutie patooties

the girls all did really well at cheering each other on and waiting their turns.  i'm sure we won't be so lucky when luke turns 5

alana's ready for a strike

go team!

a+ parenting

We had the little party room ready for pizza and cake as soon as the game was done.  Hello to me not having to clean anything up!

proud birthday parents

what is THIS coming my way?

boom.  hello kitty roasted.

g and a

our little party goers

let's paaaaaaaaaarrrrrty!

Turns out two hours goes really quickly when there are several 4 and 5 year olds involved, so present-opening was more like a tear-a-thon with everyone involved.  So although I'm not exactly sure who gave what, the bottom line is that Genevieve was totally spoiled and has a lot of very generous friends (who have very generous mommies).

Later that night, because we hadn't had enough sugar, we all went to Red Robin for dinner.  This place makes Matt and me ill just because of the noise and the chaos, but Genevieve has been obsessed with going to dinner there for her birthday for months on end.  She has mostly been dying for the wait staff to sing to her.  It's the little things, right?  This is where Grandma and Grandpa Maio gave her her presents: the first was a pink fishing pole, and the second was a much beloved Barbie.  G had apparently been lusting after this for a while and immediately upon opening it yelled, "You tricked me!".  It was pretty dang cute.

yeah yeah, a fishing pole, that's nice

NOW this is something good

 

 

happy camper

if she gets all the attention i'm at least getting some sundae

happy kitten

The evening a success, we all went home and crashed.  The next day we took G to get her our gift - a very big kid bike.  This tot is turning into a little kid before our eyes!

dy.ing. for the training wheels to be put on.  we will be removing them in the spring, ready or not

giving it a practice spin

eat my dust

So GG at age five: she's a very bright, very grown up little girl.  She's an angel in school and around others and gives me almost 100% sassafras at home.  I'll take it.  She loves dancing and ballet, she's an awesome big sister, and she loves to do art.  She comes up with hilarious, very adult-like statements that keep Matt and me shaking our heads.  She can be extremely loving or...extremely bratty especially to mom.  She has literally turned up her nose at me as she stomped out of the room, and the other day Matt busted her sticking her tongue out behind my back.  But when I tell her to go to her room it usually only takes a minute for her to decide to change her attitude and come back and hang out.

According to GG:
her favorite foods are onions, ice cream, hot dogs, corn dogs, sausage, bacon and tootsie rolls 
her favorite activities are, play outside, do artwork, and play on the computers at st. mary's
her favorite songs are, Single Ladies by Beyonce, and Safe and Sound by Capital Cities
her favorite books are, Cat in the Hat, Pinkalicious, and If I Ran The Zoo

What a little nut our girl is.  But we wouldn't have it any other way.  Happy birthday Geegalicious!