amelia's birthday

Amelia started her special day with dance class. Perfect for her. Afterwards, Amelia and I had a hot date at the mall. She was spoilt with some new shoes (shopping for little girl shoes is almost as much fun as for myself...almost) a 'birthday outfit' to wear out for dinner that night and a lil manicure with pink polish. We made cupcakes for her party and then it was time to pick up Aiden from school. Aiden melted my heart on Amelia's birthday. It started by him waking her by singing happy birthday, making her bed for her, being waaaaaay nicer than normal to her. It had been library day at school and Aiden had a chosen a ballerina book so he could read it to her for her birthday. After school they played Lego together for hours until was time to go out for dinner. Red Robin was the choice and Amelia was dazzled by the big red bird until he turned around to leave and she loudly exclaimed " bye, bye, chicken butt!" I could have slid under the table right there. Halfway through dinner, Amelia wanted to sit beside Aiden so we swapped, parents on one side kids on the other. Dale and I had an 'aha' moment of being parents to older kids and we liked it alot.