Katelyn turns four!

I know I say it all the time, but they really are getiing too big too fast. Katelyn is officially the same age that Kyleigh was when we moved to Hawaii. Since there is the same age difference, Ridge is as old as Katelyn was when we moved. Crazy!

Katelyn turned four on November 18th and we had an all day party. We started the day with pancake men. We then got Katelyn all dressed up for her big day. The Giles family gave her a new skirt for her birthday. Wendi said she saw the skirt and thought of Katelyn. It is so our little Kate-Kate. She LOVES it. We even had a matching hairbow and necklace to complete her outfit. Daddy took Katelyn to work with him in the morning to be his birthday assistant. At lunch she went out to Keoki's with Daddy and Uncle Mikey. Rusty said everyone was smiling and staring as she walked in and half of the people stopped them to talk to her. Her big request for lunch was hula pie, which was granted. Kyleigh had even reminded me to bring a shirt to put over her white shirt so it didn't get stained with the chocolate sauce. After lunch we picked her up and headed to Claire's so she could pick out some birthday bling. We also went to the humane society and played with the puppies and kitties.

Her party this year was a farm animal party. A few months ago I put some things in a joint garage sale with a few other ladies. Katelyn had a hard time parting with everything in the pile. As a compromise I let her keep the duck cake pan that we had from her first birthday. Ever since then she has been planning her duck cake for her next birthday. When it came time to make the cake I went down to get the pan and couldn't find it anywhere. She was set on a duck cake so we had to improvise. Rusty grabbed a little rubber duck toy, Kyleigh held the flashlight, and I traced our duck projection. It worked great. I made the cake and used our stencil to cut out the duck. I had some cake left over so I made water for our duck. We also had pig and cow ice cream sandwiches. I had found a cute set of ice cream sandwich molds the week before at a garage sale (perfect timing). Of course Katelyn wanted pizza again so we challenged everyone to make a pizza farm animal. The results were less impressive than last years smiley face pizzas, but they still tasted good.

Her gifts were so fun this year. She opened each one and wanted to play with them right away. Kyleigh was so sweet and insisted on giving her a build a bear gift certificate. Kyleigh got one for her birthday and had so much fun picking clothes off the website that she wanted to give Katelyn one. You need about $20.00 to get an outfit for your bear. She was willing to pay the whole amount from her allowance, but I told her we could split it to help her out. Because you buy it online you don't acutally get a card so she made a card to wrap up for Katelyn. She was so excited to give it to her and it was so cute.

We gave Katelyn a scooter. She has been scooting around the house ever since. The next morning she was scootering around when we called her in for breakfast. She scootered into the dining room and carefully parked her scooter. It took awhile. We asked her to move over a chair. She unparked her scooter, scooted the 1 1/2 feet and reparked her scooter. It was very funny.

She went to bed on November 18th a happy four year old.
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