Mikayla's Seventh Birthday

Mikayla's seventh birthday was last week on Monday (yes it has been hectic, and it's taken me this long to get the post out). Since her REAL birthday was on a school day Mikayla was worried that her birthday wasn't going to be special. Like I would ever let that happen, unless you're new around here, you know birthdays are a bit of a big deal to me.
Jan's family has always had a tradition of waking up the birthday girl (or boy) by singing "Happy Birthday" and giving them presents in bed first thing in the morning. We've tried to make this happen for our kids too, so they wake up feeling special right from the get-go on their day.

I also blew-up a few balloons and tied them to Mikayla's chair at the kitchen table, hung a couple streamers and made a little birthday place mat for Mikayla to have with breakfast before school.
Of course I made cupcakes for her to take to school, chocolate with vanilla icing and Smarties on top. And to make her school lunch special I got her one those pre-packaged lunchable things (you know the thing she begs for when she sees it at the store, and I shudder at the thought of buying).

After school she got to facetime with my parents (who are still in Belize), and talk to Jan's parents on the phone, and her aunties.

The highlight of the day for Mika was the present we gave her (of course every seven year old loves getting presents), she got a "walking" dog, in lieu of the real dog she actually wants. She can control where the dog goes by pressing buttons on the leash. All-in-all not so bad for a Monday birthday... just wait till you see what happened the following Saturday!!