Here is a girl who gets excited about her birthdays. She kind of thinks that February 6th should be a national holiday, celebrated by everyone. I love the enthusiasm. She has been wanting to turn twelve for a long time. In fact, she has been saying that she is twelve-ish for months now. Well, it's finally true.
For her birthday breakfast, she requested scones (and fruity pebbles. I only got them because it was her birthday, believe me.)
Because it's all about celebrating, she got to blow out a candle for breakfast. I guess it's like a bonus wish for the day.
Yep, this about sums it up.
She was thrilled with her El Bandito mustache shirt.
In her words, it is "totes adorbs!" (Translation: totally adorable.)
And pretty happy with her Taylor Swift CD. (It was hard to believe she was missing one. It seems like we are hearing all Taylor Swift all the time around here.) Unfortunately, after a couple of presents, it was back to real life, and getting ready for school.
She did, however, enjoy a special birthday lunch with Mom and Dad. Her friends were a little disappointed that we pulled her out of school at lunch time because they weren't able to keep their tradition of singing happy birthday loudly to her in the lunchroom which totally embarrasses her. (There is just something fun about embarrassing Samantha, I have to admit. It's just so easy to do.)
She chose to go to Noodles & Co. (Yeah, my kids have really expensive taste.)
My crazy lunch companions.
Since life was not, in fact, put totally on hold for Samantha's birthday, after school was the usual busy, crazy time that we love. I did let her skip dance and she and her friend Emma, spent the afternoon crafting and painting and eating doughnuts. It was also Junior High orientation which was not how Samantha wanted to spend her birthday, but she survived.
Her cake choice was the easiest one ever. All she wanted was a dippin' dots "cake." I was a little amazed by this choice since her cakes are usually months in the planning with very specific decorating instructions. I think since she's gotten so into cake decorating herself, she just didn't want anyone messing with her stuff and she never likes to eat her own decorations. Whatever the reason, it was pretty awesome to have it be so simple. It's not necessarily pretty, but hey, it tasted good and it satisfied the birthday girl's wishes, so it served it's purpose. And better yet, no leftovers for me to be tempted to eat later.
Love Shawn's face in this one.
Samantha has been asking for a pink chef's coat for a while now, so she was pretty excited to put this on. (I only wish she had her very own kitchen - off premises - to do all of her decorating. It would involve much less clean up on my part.)
This is Jonas demonstrating how he is going to hug Samantha every time he sees her in the halls at school next year. (We did just come from orientation after all.) As you can see, Samantha is really excited about this prospect.
She can hardly wait.
Samantha's cute activity day leader dropped off this giant cupcake covered with an entire tub of frosting. (Samantha's love of frosting is well known around here, at church and at school, apparently.)
Unfortunately, one of Samantha's presents showed up a day late, but hopefully it didn't ruin the effect too much. She was pretty excited to tear into this box.
A plastic trombone!
(And yes, it works as well as her actual brass trombone. - Fun for all of us.)
I guess this means she can still practice at home even when she leaves her trombone at school - which happens most of the time, by the way.
I think as far as birthdays go, it wasn't too bad. I can't believe she is really twelve. She is excited to be in young women's and for whatever else comes along with being twelve. (Except for getting her ears pierced. We told our girls they had to wait until they were 12, now that it's here, she's afraid to do it. Amelia, on the other hand is begging to go in her place. We'll see if ear piercing actually takes place in her 12th year or not.)
Samantha is so fun and witty. She has a big personality and definitely keeps us on our toes. She keeps things stirred up and lively around here, that's for sure. She keeps us on the forefront of tween terminology, and whatever "the thing" is right now. I am excited (and nervous) for what this next year holds for us. It is fun to watch her developing her talents with music and all of her creative outlets. I hope to see her continue to make good choices and good friends. Here's to a happy year for Samantha!
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