Cairo's Birthday Continued...

It was Erik's job to do our last blog update on Cairo's birthday.  As you can tell by the pictures, I decided I needed to add a little more.

Cairo's birthday landed during the middle of the week, but since it was our summer we call got to enjoy the day with her.  Cairo woke up to a pile of presents, a birthday banner, and her breakfast of choice.  As usual, everyone spoiled her with wonderful, thoughtful gifts.  I hope she knows how much she's loved and how lucky she is.  The biggest excitement for Cairo, though, was her make-up.  She's been asking for make-up for a while but we told her that she needed to wait until she was five.  Heather got her a make-up kit full of everything a five year-old would need to make themselves pretty.  Cairo made up herself, Mei, Jonah, and me... much to my delight.  Our conversation went something like this:

C: Mommy, I want you to be prettier for my birthday.  Let me put make-up on you.

Me: No, I don't really think I want to put any on right now.

C: Do you want to do with this the easy way or the hard way?

I chose the easy way.

For Cairo's birthday we took Cairo, Jonah, Mei, and Lili to the movie theater to see the new Disney movie Brave.  The movie came out a few days after her actual birthday.  Each kid got a popcorn bucket, a small baggie of candy, and a little toy.  The candy was gone before the previews finished and the popcorn was quick to follow.  Jonah was glued to the movie the entire time.  I don't think hw even blinked.  I ended up with Mei and Cairo in my lap towards the end.  Cairo was crying, not because she was scared but because she was sad that people and other bears were trying to get the mommy bear.  For Lili, the whole thing was a new experience.  She would stand up and instead of looking at the screen she would turn and look at the audience.  Then, she'd turn around and sit up nice and tall on the edge of her seat and watch some more of the movie.  I had a great time and was excited that we didn't have to leave the movie once to take any of them to the bathroom.

Cake! Yum!

 Cairo also got a fun ABC twister game.  The kids has a great time trying to twist their bodies to touch all the right letters.

One last present...