Simply SuLee: Our baby is 7.....

Can you believe how late I am on blogging about ~~my baby's, my overgrown toddler's~~ our youngest child's birthday? This is what happens when ~~your Mom is lazy and doesn't want to blog anymore~~ you are the third child..... :-)

We had a friend party a couple days earlier than her actual birthday. This indecisive little nut ball could not decide on what type of party she wanted. First, it was a Tae Kwon Do party, then it was a roller skating party, then it was a paint party and then finally, the week before her actual birthday, she went with Mommy's original choice of an American Girl Doll party at our home with a handful of her favorite long time buds.

While a home party is wonderful, I've decided I much prefer an outside party. Home party = Obsessing on Pinterest, while an outside party needs no imagination nor clean up. :-)
I must admit though, I loved making Lily's favorite cake, the tissue paper pom-poms, finding striped paper straws, gluing color coordinated strips on the ever so expensive glass apple juice bottles, coming up with a craft idea and other activities that would keep the girlies happy for two hours....~~NOT~~....not completely at least. :-) Fortunately, this was an amazing group of girls who kept the party going all on their own.

No birthday is complete without a Daddy/Daughter date. The following night she chose to eat dinner at Red Lobster with her main man and then go to Build-A-Bear. Honestly, I think this date night with their Daddy is their favorite birthday gift of all. One on one time with Daddy is hard to come by with a house full of women but Jeff makes sure that each girly gets his undivided attention for at least one day out of the year.

Birthday morning was the next day and always starts off with that sugar filled donut and more sugar filled cookies to take for snack to school to keep the celebration rolling through out the day. We always let the girls choose what they would like for dinner or where they would like to go for their birthday dinner and guess where we went. Red Lobster...2 nights in a row! Those cheesy biscuits were calling her name....mine too! I LOVE those things! While Red Lobster's food is nothing to brag on, those biscuits are. The hour wait to be seated is so worth having ~~ten~~ one of those biscuits melt in your mouth.
On a side note:
Our favorite sitter was not able to sit one night because she was out on a 'date'. Lily asked what Mollee was going to do for her date. I told her that they were going for ice cream. Lily's ~~loud~~ reply: "That's it?!?!?" I then asked what she would like to do for a date. With a big smile on her face, "I would have him take me to dinner at Red Lobster, then we would have dessert, then he would take me shopping and then I would need to get home to take a bath and go to bed". Yes....and that bath and going to bed would not include your date! :-) She kills me!
Filled our bellies and came home to open family gifts.

Oh my "Lillian Hope of the most perfect Love".....yes, this is what I call her and ~~she can't stand it but~~ secretly loves it. You are FUN! You are a firecracker! You are a pistol! We never know what is going to set you off. You too are the most tender hearted little love bug ever and best cuddler. A perfect combination! Life is a roller coaster ride with you....always loud and always exciting. We wouldn't have it any other way.
It's hard to believe that might be one of the last 7 year old parties we would ever have in our home.....
LOVE you, my little Baby of Love.