To celebrate my little girl turning four we had a mini party at school, a Build-a-Bear Party with friends, and a small weekend trip to Great Wolf Lodge with the four of us.  She had a blast!!!!  The best of all and the most talked about was her pirate themed party’s and the endless swimming and “diving” she did at GWL.  She LOVED the water-as we expected.  She and her daddy went on all the slides, the wave pool, and the most time was spent in the “kiddie” area.  She felt that she could conquer the slides and waterfalls there without any help.  My youngest hesitated a bit more when it came to the water.  After about two hours she felt more comfortable with putting her face gently in the water.  We have heard about GWL almost daily since the trip.  The girls had such a great time with the celebrations that they have already begun to plan my youngest turning three this July.  So far it will be in Michigan and the cake will be green according to the conversations the two of them have been having.

Pre-school party

Bed time story and GWL

My littlest did not like the character at all

My new four year old diving in the falls

We got her pink snorkel gear (as seen above) and a pink guitar-she loved them both

Firecracker Hats and Music

Today the girls and Foxy and I walked to the store to get our craft supplies.  We made Fourth of July hats/crowns to wear tomorrow night for the fireworks.  It was M.'s first time using a glue stick.  I could not find kiddie scissors so I cut out the shapes and she placed them with A LOT of glue.  That whole concept was definitely foreign to her.  She really wanted to just color with the purple tinted glue stick.  This week was our second week of "music" hour.  M. is obsessed with the guitar and it ends up being a battle to take it from her to demonstrate.  By the end she sort of got it.  I. either used the guitar as her drum or the toy drum.  Good times :)