05 October 2010

The Gremlin's 5th Birthday

The Gremlin had her birthday party at her preschool this year. I baked her some cupcakes and put together goodie bags for all the kids. And her teachers took care of it all... the best kind of party! :-D Unfortunately I don't have any pics of that, though.

However we had our own little celebration at home. I baked her a cake and used glittering cake gel to make a fairy on the cake... she's really into fairies lately...


We had to cut it quick though cause it was so hot that day the frosting was starting to melt. We figured since we weren't having a party for her at home and she wouldn't be getting gifts from other kids, we'd get her a few gifts. One of them was a hoola hoop, which she had been wanting for a long time. Her favorite gift, though, was the new Tinkerbell movie The Great Fairy Rescue.


It was the only thing on our TV for two months straight... and now she is completely obsessed. Everything is fairies and Tinkerbell, which is kinda cool cause my favorite story as a kid was Peter Pan and I loved Tinkerbell. In fact, in my college English course I rewrote the Peter Pan story from Tinkerbell's point of view for one of my writing projects.

The best part was yet to come, though. We decided to take her to a special birthday dinner at the RSL. We got her all dressed up...

(cheeky girl)

... and then we headed out to the club for some birthday grub...


Then afterward we took a nice scenic walk to the movie theater...


... where we saw a duck in the water on the way...


She had a great time! We all had a great time... and I think we will be making this a birthday tradition for her every year. The birthday parties are great (and she'll have those too), but nothing is better than some fun family time on a special occasion.

04 October 2010

Psychologist Visit

The psychologist visited the daycare two weeks ago. We didn't hear back from him yet, but her teacher at the school says it went pretty well. Now it's just a matter of waiting for the appointment with the pediatrician... and hopefully getting in appointments with the occupational therapist and speech therapist to have them do assessments before then.

Oh and it was also the gremlin's birthday last week... I'll have some more news on that and some pics coming soon!