Ellie's birthday

Since I'm so behind on blogging, I've decided to just do whatever entries I can, regardless of whether they're out of order or whether there are other more important entries I haven't done yet. So Miss Ellie's birthday...

Ellie enjoyed a whole weekend that was all about her! On Saturday, we had a birthday party for her and her friend, Ella, at a gymnastics place. The kids (about 20 of them) had the run of the place and they seemed to love it. And, of course, Ellie got the pink cake that she's been talking about for MONTHS! In all of the excitement, I didn't get any pictures of video on the Flip. I definitely need to track down some pictures from people who were there.

The next day, we had a whole day of birthday fun. Ellie got the dollhouse that we bought for her months ago and thanks to Gaga, Papa and Gigi, she got a whole family of dolls and a bunch of furniture for it. It was/is so sweet watching her play with the dolls:

Grandma Sue got Ellie a stroller for her doll and it's been a big hit -- Ellie likes driving it at ridiculously high speeds and Charlie likes trying to climb in it.

The next day (Ellie was beginning to think that presents were going to arrive everyday), Ellie got some super fun zhu-zhu pets from Shiny Grandpa and Meme. It was hilarious to watch her and Charlie follow them around, but not necessarily want to touch them. ;-)

Ellie received tons of other wonderful gifts from people -- these are just the ones that we happened to catch on film. Thank you to everyone who helped make Ellie's day so special.