Minnie Turns 5

I can't believe my little girl is five years old. She'll start kindergarten in the fall!  She has grown up a lot in the past six months or so.  Life is tough as an adult, but at her age when you take away her father, move houses, and have an extended relative move in all in a matter of weeks it will rock your world.  I think Minnie's age can be a hard one.  No longer a toddler, yet not a big kid quite yet either.  Minnie soaks up information too and it amazes me what she has heard and understood when I don't think she's even paying attention.
But besides all that, she has been looking forward to this birthday for a while. Tink had even printed her out a chart with birthday cakes on it, one for each day, that she marks off until her birthday.  Mostly I think she just wanted her roller skates.  She had picked them out and when Tink and Bucko got their roller blades at Christmas, she has often felt left out.  Goofy used his birthday money to buy himself a pair as well.  I ordered them soon after his birthday and they should have arrived a week earlier, but were sent to the wrong zip code. The funny thing is that Minnie kept saying he couldn't get hers until her birthday because it wouldn't be fair. Well, because it was sent to the wrong zip code, his skates came in the mail ON her birthday!  I couldn't believe it.  It worked out perfectly.

Minnie really wanted to have her good friend and old neighbor come over for her birthday. They had been out of the country for several months, so Minnie had missed playing with her.  It worked out well for them, so they came over for dinner and cake.  We had crockpot chicken sauce and rice as the main dish and Minnie really wanted a cake with yellow icing, so I made it into the shape of a sun.  Besides her skates, she also received a doll, some nail polish (or varnish as they call it here), makeup (from her friend), a Groovy Girl doll, and a few other small things from friends and family.  We also invited our neighbors and good friends over for cake.  (I don't like cake all that much, so hate having leftover.)  She had a good day though.  We ended it with glow sticks for everyone--those are always a hit!