My baby turned 4 on Saturday -- a feat we celebrated with a party for some family and friends at our house.
Here's some fun stories about Sammy's birthday weekend:
At the grocery store Friday to buy food for the party
Sam (crying, while sitting in the red car part of one of those monstrous car-carts): "Mommy! I hurt my thumb!"
Me: "Let me look at it." (There's not a mark anywhere on the supposedly injured thumb) "Uh-oh, Sam. I don't know if we can fix this one. Your thumb might fall off."
Sam (eyes huge, utterly flabbergasted)
Me (giving her thumb a kiss): "Actually, it's fine. It'll feel better in a minute."
Sam (quietly, as I'm walking back to push the cart): "Mommy, that was mean!"
As people are arriving or calling on the phone
Sam: "Hi! Today's my birthday! I'm 4 years old, and I'm very exciting!"
In the middle of her party
My brother, Joel, is standing in my yard, making strange hand gestures at me and tugging on his shirt. I'm trying to figure out what he's saying when Sam appears from behind his truck -- in pigtails, blue underwear and pink sandals.
Sam: "Mommy, I want to go swimming in the creek." (We have a small creek at the edge of our yard)
I proceed to hustle her mostly naked little body into the house as party-goers chuckle and grin at us -- only to have her escape and run back out, still mostly naked, to get her dress to put it on again.
I'll have pictures of the party up soon!
What's the funniest thing your kids have done during birthday parties?
