early BIRTHDAY!!!

Eden is turning 7 in two days! Since Damian has commitments every other night this week, we decided to surprise her having our family celebration dinner early. We let her choose wherever she wanted to go and she chose Pei Wei. Before we even loaded into the car, she told us she was going to order honey seared chicken, water with oranges, one of their big chocolate chip cookies and fortune cookies. Sounds like her mama’s girl! That is exactly what I would have ordered, well I am sure I would have only had a little bit of the chocolate chip cookie.

For her birthday we had been planning to surprise her with a keyboard and piano lessons, but we ran that by her and she showed no interest. The only things she said she wanted were makeup, hair stuff to put in her room, a new purse, nail polish, and a couple of cute (translation: sparkly and pre-teen looking) new outfits. Could she be any more girly?

She was ecstatic to open a container filled (mostly from the dollar store) with combs, brushes, mirrors, rollers, clips, rubber bands, a small spray bottle, a manicure set and vanilla hair spray. Damian warned me that I was just feeding the ‘beast,’ but since I have childhood memories of the sheer thrill of getting something I asked for and REALLY wanted. (2^nd grade: the ultimate TRANSFORMER that turned from one guy into like seven different ones. My mom tried everything to entice me with girl stuff, but my mind was made up. I really wanted the transformer. That thing endured hours of play and a trip to school for show and tell. All my ‘boyfriends’ were jealous and the girls didn’t know what to think of me, but I am grateful that my mom caved and made my little tomboy heart go pitter pat.) I had to do something girly for my girly girl!

I also hit one out of the park with the necklace I bought her. At a local boutique I found these necklaces that have a glass locket that you can fill with different kinds of charms and a coordinating (not matching, see Linds I am learning!) bracelet. I knew Eden would like it because it fit all her criteria for jewelry: sparkly. The charms I chose for her were: an ice cream cone (for her sweet tooth), a star (because she is our ‘star’), a heart (cuz we love her), a purse (to represent her smashing fashion sense), a music note (because she loves to music), and a butterfly (to remind her of her room at home.)