The night before she turned 8 she was enthusiastic about putting up her own door streamers. She chose orange and green. She also slept in "the castle" in her room.
The morning of her birthday (a Saturday this year) Calvin and Violet surprised her with the toys they chose for her - a big bouncy ball and sidewalk chalk.
She wanted "Violet bread" which is toast/butter/seasoning with italian seasoning or garlic or something like that...apparently Violet makes good bread.
More choices were scrambled eggs and bacon. :)
Mama Row called us during breakfast and informed us that the new indoor pool at Western Home was open for residents to invite friends/family so she offered up a time slot of 9-11 am for our family to go swim. Of course! Vanessa had hoped to swim at Byrnes Pool but it was a rainy, overcast day, so this offer to swim was perfect! The pool was fun! It had a big circle with a current to swim with or against, and a few lanes to swim in. I'm surprised I didn't get any pics of the pool.
At 11 am we stopped swimming and made a quick trip to the garden to help Mama Row pull up as many weeds as possible. We made quick work of it and had fun noticing how much the plants have grown since planting them.
Vanessa also chose to watch Beauty and the Beast.
Sidewalk chalk was a fun activity and while the kids played, Dave and I worked on cleaning up the garage. With in the whole weekend, we got rid of 7 bags of kid clothes, random toys, tools we didn't use, baby stuff, shoes, etc.... majorly unloaded. All the goodwill donations will hopefully benefit others!
Vanessa chose "make your own pizzas" so we had a lot of fun making and baking those. The weather was nice enough to eat on the deck.
Since we were planning a big party for both Vanessa and Eli to celebrate both their birthdays with family on June 3rd, that would be "the day for birthday cake" so she picked out some Oreo Klondike ice cream bars for dessert. I think the theme of the birthdays this year was OREOS!
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