Home Depot Birthday Celebration

How did I celebrate my 40th? Nice dinner at an upscale restaurant without kids followed by a trip to Home Depot. Our central heat went out yesterday so we had to get space heaters to keep us from freezing at night!

It was a nice birthday though, and so far 40 is not so bad. I've copped up to the age to most everyone I know, and most people react by saying "You don't look that old"! I don't know if that is a compliment or a slap?

I got a Garmin for my birthday (I had Garmin envy reading everyone else's blogs and have been hinting pretty heavily) and I tested it out this morning, I clocked a 2 minute mile - in my car. Hoping to get a real run in tomorrow morning.

Tonight the girls want to take me to Chuck-E-Cheese to celebrate - Woohoo!

Diva Delaney Turns Five

So despite Delaney's objections to having a winter birthday, she turned five today. I managed to talk her into a minor celebration, with the promise that her "real" birthday will be in the summer with a pool party.

The rules (as outlined by D):

1) NO SINGING, although she did want the traditional singing balloon we get every time there is a birthday in our house.

2) We will take a shopping trip and she will pick out a five year old present, followed by us preparing her favorite dinner (homemade mac 'n cheese), and an ice cream cake.

3) At her real party (summer) she wants two pinatas, one for herself that no-one else can hit, and one for everyone else.

4) She liked the idea of wearing a birthday crown today, doesn't like that Charlotte is wearing one too. Since I told her she would just have to deal with that, she decided she is the Queen and Char is the princess.

Notice the lack of smile in her picture, that is her Queen attitude. Queens don't smile. Princesses however do, knowing that they are bugging their sister!

Luckily my other two girls aren't nearly as demanding as Delaney - she is a DIVA! I think she gets it from her father. So this is what five looks like.