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Ezri wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese for her birthday.
I did not want to go – but it was her firm desire. I didn’t have it in me to throw a party there, but we found some good friends willing to come play with us.
The Booremba girls joined us for what turned out to be a fabulously good time.

Ezri and friends loved running around and putting tokens in things that light up or you ride on or let you throw projectiles or whack buttons.

You also got to dance with a large mouse mascot.

Ivan adored playing with a foam hammer and whacking frogs.

Here are Ezri and J “as seen on TV”

Video games are mesmerizing.

Ivan loved the monster truck ride. Though he did fall getting out of it once for his only tears of the night.

We got a cake with 6 candles.

There was pizza and lemonade in hard-to-spill cups.

We all sang happy birthday to our 6 year-old Ezri!

At Kindergarten you got a crown and a sticker and to be the line leader on your birthday – Whoah! Ezri gave her class the Elephant and Piggie book Elephants Cannot Dance in honor of her birthday and she read the whole thing with her teacher Mrs. Murphy.

Hair chalk was one of her gifts. She used it to make her hair pink and purple like Raven, Twilight Sparkle and Sabine. There is a pink ring around our bathtub now. She loved how her hair matched her dress.

On Saturday, Jason and Lori took Ezri to MagiQuest where in just three hours she advanced from Junior Magi with her pink wand to Master Magi. Lori made her the balloon crown and a balloon snowman friend who came with a cup of junior mints which Ezri said were all for her but that she is happier sharing so Ivan and I can have some.

On Sunday, Meghan met the Blaus for sledding. It was fun. Ivan and Ezri made it from the top of the hill all the way down to the weeds. And everyone went over the bump.

Ivan named the dragon he got for his birthday “Dragon.”
Aunt Amy also sent an unbirthday present for Ezri.
Ezri named her octopus “Ada.”
She hugged Ada and said, “I named you Ada because you have eight arms. Eight-ah Eight-ah.” Then she counted the arms to be sure.
Perhaps this octopus is named 8A.

Just a week old:

What she looks like these days:

The party:

Ezri really wanted a pinata. Ivan helped picked this one at a party store. It is a ribbon pull pinata, so no small persons were given implements to wield.

As a surprise bonus there was face painting:

Ivan wanted a pink heart which by the end of the night he was wearing on his sleeve in streaks of pink.

Faded rainbow photo that I had to take before she would let me wash her face for bed.

Party girls having pizza.

This photo sums up how Ezri felt about her party.

Ezri helped make belated birthday cupcakes and picked out their toppers.

This photo was the answer to, “Which one do you think Eric will want?”

Here’s dad and Ezri cleaning off the feet of their superhero toppers with their tongues.

This is the birthday card Ezri drew of her and Eric hugging.

Here is Ezri on her 4th birthday on her new pink&purple quilt with monkey monkey for scale.
If you ask your Grandma Liz for a pink&purple quilt a couple weeks before your 4th birthday and you are as lucky as my girl, you get one.
Ezri said, “I do not have any pink and purple quilts maybe Grandma Liz will make one for me for my birthday.”

Grandma Tam sent a PINK handknit unicorn with a sparkley yarn mane. Upon opening this present Ezri proclaimed that she loved the unicorn very much. Ezri has had all her plastic My Little Ponies ride on Pink Unicorn (she has creatively named her Pink Unicorn – can I call her P.U.?). Ezri insisted we take P.U. on her first car ride out to dinner on Ezri’s birthday. Ezri announced at bedtime that it would be Pink Unicorn’s first night sleeping in a bed. Yesterday we had Pink Unicorn’s first dance party. We played Classic Queen for the event.

We spent all weekend partying.

Here is Ezri while her friends all sing happy birthday. I think this is her favorite part of the birthday celebration.

Here she is after eating a cupcake while thinking about eating her red dragon cookie. Dragon cookies were a special request. I don’t know where she got the idea, but I am glad Aunt Amy sent the cookie cutter.

The doorbell rang and a delivery person arrived with oodles of fruit.
I had to put down the baby to claim this arrangement. It took two hands to carry.
Ivan was not pleased, but he recovered and enjoyed the floor show of his family eating fruit.
He had to settle for applesauce and playing with a wooden spoon.
Clearly, the older child got more out of this one.

Ezri was very keen to help me with this birthday present.

She selected a flower to eat first.

This is what she looks like with a half melon ball in her cheek.

She declared the flower to be yummy.

Then this conversation:
Ezri: Why are some strawberries brown?
me: Because they are chocolate covered.
Ezri: Can I have one?

A three-year-old and chocolate covered strawberries is fun, but not neat.
I have shown that said child will use one napkin per strawberry and turn it completely brownish.

It was further shown that if there are skewers of grapes in the fridge and the fridge is not locked, Ezri will eat them ALL one by one.
I had three grapes off this arrangement, Ezri had around 30.
Goodness grapes!

For those who aren’t on facebook, I thought I’d repost the lovely photos Meghan took at Ezri’s birthday party.