Happy Birthday, Maggie!

Our marvelous Maggie is 9 years old!  Time has flown!

9 years old!

Maggie continues to be a very kind and genuine person, loves to read, bake and do art projects (especially her comic books), is an awesome big sister and the family's pep-talker.  We love her and are so proud of the young lady she's become!

Since we moved in Maggie has been asking Jamie to paint her an Avengers mural on her wall, and she also complains that it's too hard to draw her comics in her room.  So we got her a desk for her birthday, and Jamie did some amazing art work for the room!

Maggie's favorite avenger, Scarlet Witch - started like this

Finished product! (and a psyched kid)

He added LED lights on the back... pretty sweet

Big Avengers canvas that Jamie plans to paint alongside Maggie

Maggie is always asking if she can sleep in our bed for the night, so we pretended like we were being extra nice and let her sleep with me the night before her birthday.  Jamie then proceeded to set up her room until like 3am... he's such a good Dad!

I delivered pancakes in bed as requested, and Evie and Ben got a kick of it too.  Maggie didn't have school on her birthday due to the Oxford shooting incident, and she was bummed.  Jamie stayed home with her and Evie and took her to see Ghostbusters which she loved!  Afterward we had a soccer game where her team sang to her, and then rushed home to start her sleepover with two new buddies from school.  I convinced her not to have a party now, but said we'll have a big pool party in the summer with all her friends to make up for it!

Breakfast in (my) bed...
there are strawberry stains on my sheets, sigh.

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Post game review

Evie got to have a friend sleepover as well (mostly to keep her out of Maggie's hair for the night)!  We did a "Nailed It" challenge since that's one of Maggie's favorite shows.  I gave them some monster cake examples to replicate... they had a really fun time working on them and were very proud of their results.  

Hard at work

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Evie and her friend were judges...
but I let them play with cupcakes and frosting too

This was the goal...

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Nailed it!

I love the lips

We went through like 5 cupcakes, but eventually
ended up with this masterpiece!

Maggie was extremely proud of her creation

Playing with her gift of kinetic sand

We had the grandparents over on Sunday for a special dinner with the birthday girl, where she was spoiled even more!

I asked Grandma to make Maggie's fave:
Carrot Cake!

Love that enthusiasm!

Ben was into the birthday song

Grandma made Maggie a beautiful rainbow blanket!

Jamie spent the weekend putting up our Christmas lights, and he did a fabulous job!  Second story lighting is perhaps the most terrifying thing ever...

This photo doesn't do it justice...
people really dig our Christmas Unicorn!

We finally got Ben's daycare photo...
2-1/2 years old, cute as ever!