On Sunday we celebrated Skylar’s 4th birthday!
She couldn’t stop dancing and spinning once she put that party hat on!
Her actual birthday isn’t until mid-week and on Monday we are having a kiddie-party with some of her friends but this weekend it was just Scott, her, and me.
There were a few gifts from us and her relatives
A stamping kit. I would have loved this as a kid! Thanks, Auntie C!
And a blankie from Grandma
Saturday I picked up these
The extras are going to her friends’ house for the kiddie party. Pawn extra sugar off on other children.
Skylar requested a chocolate cupcake and a cookie.
And she loved every bite!
And I loved being with her!
It feels like just yesterday I was having her baby shower, which was only a mere 48 hours before I went into labor and Skylar decided to make her arrival. She was in a hurry to make her debut in the world which left me no time to wash all those onesies I got at my shower, but I managed.
We kept Sunday simple and low key because there is still a party on Monday, and more celebrating mid-week on the actual day of. Plus, with kids, simpler is better. The chaos and over-stimulation and sheer excess factor that I see at many children’s parties is not something I relish. She loved it more because it was small and quiet and we could focus on each other, the few gifts she had (and more will be doled out as the week progresses)….
…and of course, she loved focusing on these
It’s amazing how much she’s grown in a year physically, mentally, and in every aspect. Here was her 3rd Birthday from last year.
Pictures From This Post
While holding Daddy’s Hand and Grinning Ear to Ear
And more photos from This Post
It’s interesting to see what I made a year ago in that post. It was Vegan White Chocolate Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cups
I am glad you enjoyed the Microwave Chocolate Peanut Butter & Oat Snack Bars that I made from my last post. Yes, those have been a hit here. Let me know if you try them because they are so easy and fast to make. Like 3 minutes fast and if you don’t have a microwave and prefer to heat your chocolate over the stove top, be my guest. Deb and Charlotte already made them (using the microwave). Thanks for the letting me know, ladies.
Microwave Chocolate Peanut Butter & Oat Snack Bars
Dessert: If you want to make cupcakes at home, you could try Peanut Butter Cup Brownie Cupcakes with White Chocolate Icing
And actually, these use pre-made brownies so they are really pulling a Sandra Lee. Semi-homemade.
Peanut Butter Cup Brownie Cupcakes with White Chocolate Icing
Questions:
1. Best thing you ate or did over the weekend?
Celebrating Skylar’s birthday, being reminded that four years ago this week I had a baby shower, and that I gave birth to her four years ago. She is the best thing that has ever happened to me, ever. And ever will happen.
Ironically I have seen many blog posts this weekend about attending friend’s baby showers and I have cried some Hallmark tears. Happy tears, of course. But as mom, watching the years pass and being marked with a birthday just make me appreciate where I’ve been, the gifts I’ve been given, and how blessed I am to have such a wonderful little girl!
2. Any memorable birthday party stories you care to share?
My 26th birthday was spent doing sunset yoga on the beach with Scott and my yoga friends. We went inside for a vegetarian potluck and drinks. Scott had ordered me a custom hot pink cake, and we stayed up until the wee hours with our friends talking, laughing, drinking wine, and eating cake. It was an amazing birthday!
3. Do you use store-bought bakery items like cakes, cupcakes, or cookies?
I am a busy, full-time working mom and the time involved making cupcakes and cookies, with frosting, sprinkles, you name it, well, I have no shame in admitting I’d rather spend an hour or two at the park with her and buy store-bought cupcakes than stand in the kitchen just to say they are homemade. She’s 4. Who cares. She doesn’t know the difference.
But of course, if you love to bake and have the time for it, make it from scratch at home!
P.S. If you’re just catching up on posts from the weekend there were:
- Microwave Chocolate Peanut Butter & Oat Snack Bars
- Challenge: In 10 Years
- Roasted Veggie Dinner, Fave Food Network Shows
- Aprons & Messy Cooks
- Friday Foods, Eating Out or Not
- Challenge: Attraction
See you later and have a great week!
Awwww, Happy Birthday Skylar!!!!!!! Birthdays are so much fun when you’re a kid– LOVE all of the pink and purple she has going on in her gifts and choice of food! :-)
Happy birthday do your adorable daught Skylar, I just love her name too by the way. Birthdays I usually make sure I have some sort of Icecream cake because I’m an Ice-cream lover at heart. I usually head to Baskin Robins and get a Log Roll Ice cream cake kind of like the one here:
Hope your weekend went well and you share a wonderful week with you daughter! :) Make sure you check out my 2 week love challenge for February it make just give you an even closer relationship with Skylar What can be better than that?! :)
thanks for the compliments on her name :)
Happy Birthday to your sweet little girl! I can’t believe how big she has gotten! It seems so strange to look back just a year ago and see how much our kids change. I know you are like me and enjoying ever single bit of it!
I always think your daughter looks so much older than she is! Is she tall for her age?
yes she is very tall for her age!
YAY! Happy Birthday Skylar! She is too sweet :) I loved how you said “she’s 4. who cares. she doesn’t know the difference.” about the cupcakes. So true! In the past 3-4 years I’ve had friends who have become mommies and I can see how the pressure to be perfect in every aspect is so huge and daunting. I love hearing your thoughts and attitudes about being a working mom – my mom was the same and I hope I can be like both of you some day!
* growing typo
Happy Birthday to Skylar!!!!!! How nice you, Scott, and her just celebrated at home together and then will have a kid party too! I like that, I think its nice you do it that way! We do the same thing with Anthony ; )
Those cookies are amazing! Anthony loves those! He always wants them , but I dont buy them alot because of there being so many in one package and nobody to pawn cookies on ; )
So glad she had a beautiful day celebrating with mom and dad ; )
She is grwoing up SO fast! Time flies!
Happy Birthday to Skylar! She seems like the sweetest girl! I definitely prefer low-key birthdays. The years I tried to make extravagant plans, something always went wrong and the years that I kept it simple were much more fun!
oh sweet skylar!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! BIG HUG FROM ME! And i love all that pink and purple.
Its amazing to see how fast she’s grown!
Happy Birthday Skylar :)
Happy (almost) birthday to Skylar!!! I think its awesome that you guys have your own at home celebration with just the fam. I used to love to get art supplies like stamps and color pencils as a kid. I haven’t had one of those iced cookies since I was a kid- but I used to go crazy for them!
oh, enjoy your week of celebrations! we’re firm believers in birthday WEEK instead of birthDAY festivities! and yes, enjoy every moment – the time passes so quickly, children change so much.
best thing this weekend – attending an interior design show with my friend.
nothing wrong with store-bought treats. my mom used to make everything homemade, growing up, so store-bought WAS a real treat, when we got it! glad skylar loved her cookie and cupcake!
have a great week with the fun activities!
Happy Birthday Skylar!
Time flies…doesn’t it? Before you know it, she’ll be 7….
I’d totally do the store bought stuff! Kids don’t care, and it saves you time!
Wow I can’t believe how much she has grown in one year!!
Oh my goodness, tell Skylah I say Happy Big 4! She is absolutely precious! For my birthday over the summer, I made my own carrot cake and it was out of this WORLD. This weekend the best thing I ate had to be an avocado-based chocolate mousse, it was to DIE for, and I can’t wait to recreate it!! xoxox
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR SKYLAR!!!! Belated :D