Samantha and Amelia had been obsessing for months over when their birthday was coming, and finally the big day was here! They were especially jealous after Meredith’s birthday in January, constantly whining, “That’s not fair her birthday comes first!” Never mind that they are 2.75 years older than Meredith… they loathe the fact that her birthday is the first in our family of the year (after Bandit).
FINALLY their birthday week arrived. Samantha and Amelia were looking forward to their preschool birthday celebration for weeks!
At drop-off, the other kids love to pick up Meredith by the feet, mid-section and head and carry her around like a “big fishy!”
The girls each made a poster of pictures of themselves from ages 0-5 to share with the class and got to “walk around the sun” five times.
The kids’ favorite part of their bday celebrations is making a cake in class. This time, we brought in brownie mix instead of cake. Such brave teachers.
So disgusting, but the teachers let the the birthday kid lick the spoon after the batter has been poured! They are old-school here!
Happy birthday, Samantha!
Amelia was so proud of herself making her brownies and selecting helpers from the class to assist.
Brownie face.
Samantha’s birthday interview. Always interesting to find out what they have to say! While Samantha’s favorite veggie is definitely broccoli, I’m pretty sure that’s not actually her favorite food!
Amelia’s answers seemed more accurate. She REALLY wanted a yellow teddy– sometime when we moved last year, I donated a bunch of the girls’ billions of stuffed animals and the only ones they are super upset about TO THIS DAY are the yellow teddy bears that they won at some fair or carnival game. The other day, Amelia remarked, “If we can get our teddies back, all our troubles will go away!”
The weekend of their actual birthday (March 11) and we celebrated with a wake-up balloon drop.
Before their big day, I had asked the twins what their ideal birthday would look like. They said they would like to have french toast or pancakes for breakfast, hot dogs for lunch and pizza for dinner. And absolutely no chores or cleaning that day!
We went out to breakfast with Great Auntie Lynn and Great Uncle Steve for some special birthday Fruity Pebbles french toast.
Happy birthday, Amelia!
Thanks for celebrating with us!
Birthday party pics will be in a separate post, but the day after their party, we opened all the presents from family and friends.
Their favorite present of all time (from Bandit) were these harmonicas!
The girls were also excited about these karaoke microphones and we spent the rest of the day jamming to their lovely harmonica music and singing Frozen and Moana karaoke on Youtube.
The twins love picking each other presents and one Saturday, I took them out back to back individually to pick out something with their own money. Samantha picked out a Shopkins toy for Amelia (she had no idea what Shopkins was, but apparently it called to her in the toy aisle of Target). Amelia picked out an Ariel crown (sometimes I think she picks out things she herself would like– her favorite princess is Ariel), and a toy pony stuffed animal. Despite the fact that they never pick out the items I try and steer them toward, they always LOVE each other’s gifts!
It’s special to share a birthday with each other! They’ve never complained about having to share their day.. I wonder if that will change in the future!
How did Kennedy and Sebastian know the girls wanted purses for their bday? I want one of these sparkly J. Crew purses for myself!
Practicing cartwheels and wrestling in their Moana outfits.
Jake and I only got the twins their microphones and the harmonicas from Bandit– not sure how they ended up with all these presents, but half of them went into storage for Christmas!
Lots of love,
