She's 5!!!

Yes, it has been a very long time since my last post. No, I do not have an explanation other than I just didn't feel like blogging. To be honest, I still don't, but the pictures are piling up. Instead of trying to go all the way back and play catch up though I'm just going to jump right in on where we are right now.

And, where we are right now is that Macy is now FIVE! She told a lady at the store the other day that she turned five and the girl said "five? you look seven!" And it's true, she has always looked and acted so much older than she is that sometimes I forget that she really is just five. So, in honor of my big but still little five year old, here are five fun facts about Macy

1. Her nickname is Macy Face or just Face for short.
2. She LOVES sour cream/cream cheese/ranch/anything that is creamy and can be used for dipping, although scooping is more like what she does.
3. She loves to play board games and always asks me if I want to verse her.
4. She LOVES to win/ HATES to loose.
5. She always wants to sleep in bed with James or Samm, but she hates being touched while she sleeps (just like her mom) so I always find her in her own bed when I check on her.

Since Macy turned the magical five this year she got to have a family party and her very first friend party, and was incredibly spoiled!

Our family party was really just cake and ice cream with presents and Q tips because I always forget to buy candles. The Q tips were Josh's idea.

The one thing that Macy had been asking for forever is pink flarp. As you can see she was pretty happy that her wish finally came true.

She also got a bow and arrow set, because as girly as Macy is when is comes to painting her nails, she just isn't that girly when it comes to toys.

We just had Macy's friend party today and she was pretty happy about the whole thing. She has been planning her Dora party for quite some time.

As the kids were arriving we had them sit at the table and color Dora characters that we cut out and glued to brown paper. It really helped to keep the kids busy while we were waiting for those few last stragglers, and doubled as a table cloth when it was time for cake and ice cream!

The entertainment for the party was a carnival where they played games and earned tickets that they used to buy prizes at the end of the party. Macy invited a lot of kids so I came up with the idea for a carnival to keep all the kids having fun with games but not as one massive chaotic group. I wasn't quite sure if it would go as smoothly as I had planned, but it was a huge hit. Even James who insisted that he was not going to help with a Dora party had a lot of fun. He was in charge of the basketball game and was VERY generous with his tickets.

We had a little coin toss.

And a Boots the monkey banana bean bag toss. Sadly he had to be a hair-less Boots, but none of the kids seemed to notice.

Samm was in charge of a pin the mouth on Dora game. She drew it herself and cut out all of the mouths. Samm also did all of the decorating for me.

The big hit of the carnival was this fishing/ bow and arrow game. They got to shoot the arrow over and then it came back with a ticket attached. Macy invited our neighbor Jenny who is 11 and she was nice enough to sit behind the blanket and help out.

We did orange cupcakes with pink frosting and star sprinkles, since Dora wears orange shorts and a pink shirt. Those two ladies in the mirror were nice enough to hang out and help as well. Having the extra adults around was really nice.

So many kids!

So many presents! Laila thinks they are all for her. She still isn't talking much, but the word mine is pretty easy to understand.

Phew, shooting arrows is hard work!

Parties really are a lot of work, but it's so worth it to see how excited the kids get. Macy has been waiting a long time for this party and she was all smiles the whole time.