Four and Fabulous!

Another year has passed and we celebrated another milestone in our little girls life. Watch out world....we have a new four year old on the block!

Two days before her official day, we had a small celebration with some MOPS friends. The weather, for the first time was nice enough to PLAY OUTSIDE! This is huge for us north easters.

Despite some muddy clothes, we came inside for some homemade, Strawberry Shortcake cake, sucked down juice boxes and opened a few presents. No elaborate Pintrest worthy birthday party, just unstructured play and cake :) My mother would be proud of me using my degree for the graphic elements done up for the cake top, lol. Printers and a laminator are wonderful tools...

Not pictured, Eliza had 1 girl friend out of the 6 boys in attendance

For a super easy table cover, I used free blank newsprint end rolls from our 

local paper and our dot markers to go with the color theme.

On Sunday after church, we spent some time opening some family gifts while Nolan took a nap. Grandma gave more dot markers to add to her rainbow, along with My Little Pony playset and Marble Work track pieces. Our big gift to her was actually a bunch of little inexpensive items to create a 'busy box'.

Most items were found in dollar stores/sections or clearance racks, while cashing in survey points for Amazon gift cards for slightly more expensive things like the wooden Melissa & Doug bead sets. I found great sale items, just days before Easter as basket fillers. My hopes are, that once the baby is here, this will keep her extra busy during quiet times over the summer. The Frozen trunk box (Thank you Michael's 50% off sale!) will now be used for her new dress up accessories given from friends.

Contents:

Construction Paper

Pipe cleaners/pompoms/googly eyes

Purple Headphones 

Wooden painting shapes

Bead kits

Sticker books

Paint with water book

Letter Practice

Rubber stamps

Mini coloring books

Glue

Princess Crown

Madagascar Innotab Game

Sunglasses

POP paper craft kit

Lip gloss

Pony necklace 

I wanted to really make our limited birthday budget go the distance to keep her entertained, instead of spending it all on 1-2 toys. She was quite excited and spent the rest of the afternoon like this...

A look into the future maybe?