“Here, Kitty, Kitty!!”

Claire loves cats and is especially fond of Disney’s Marie from The Aristocats.

Today Claire got a Marie necklace.

We are having so much celebrating our girl!!

“Fancy Fancy”

Claire has always been a huge Fancy Nancy fan.  She has always called her “Fancy Fancy” until today.  This morning she opened her present and said, “It’s Fancy Nancy!”  I must admit to being a little sad that turning five is turning her into a little lady.  It is becoming increasingly clear that she is no longer a baby and is getting better and stronger and smarter and more beautiful and more talented and more skilled every single day.  I am so proud of her!  But I must admit that Fancy Nancy will forever be “Fancy Fancy” to me.

Pez and Palace Pets

Claire has been collecting the Disney Princess Pez dispensers.  Until yesterday she had all of them except for Mulan.

Claire also really likes the Disney Palace Pets.  So she got some of those too.

Collection complete – all 11 Disney Princesses plus Tinkerbell

Elsa

Claire LOVES Frozen.  What little girl doesn’t?  She is a huge fan of Elsa, the Snow Queen.  So we got her an Elsa cup that has floating glitter and snowflakes.  She pretty much thinks that we’re the greatest parents ever!

To keep with the theme, here a few pics of our birthday decorations…

And just because they’re so cute…  My boys!!

Tooth Fairy Pillow

For the last six or seven months Claire has been fascinated with the idea of loosing her teeth and the Tooth Fairy coming to visit her in the night.  I think her love of the Tooth Fairy came from an episode of Peppa Pig.

At any rate, Claire is crazy about the Tooth Fairy and checks her teeth for any “wobbly” ones almost daily.  (As yet, we have no wobbly teeth to report.)  So we got her a Tooth Fairy pillow to put her teeth in when they fall out to make it easy for the Tooth Fairy to find them and easy for Claire to find her money left by the Tooth Fairy.

“Practicing”

Princesses and Strawberries

Two of Claire’s favorite things.  For Christmas got the Little People Disney Princess Songs Palace, and she loves it!  On Friday she got two more princesses to go with her palace – Tiana (from Princess and the Frog) and Rapunzel (from Tangled).

She also received a strawberry grow kit.  Claire loves to grow things, and she loves strawberries, so this is the perfect gift for her!

I love watching my princess play with her princesses!

For the Fifth Time – Let The Festivities Begin!!

I can hardly believe that this is the fifth time that I’ve kicked off Claire’s birthday month.  The past five years have been so sweet and fun!  My girl has brought so much joy into our lives.  It’s so much fun to give her a month of celebration to show her how much she’s loved and cherished and appreciated.  We are so thankful that God gifted us with this beautiful girl!  She has stolen my heart totally and completely!

Without further ado…  the festivities!!

Today Claire got a birthday shirt.  I gave it to her on the first day of the birthday month so that she can wear it all month long.  (Turns out from past experience that these little things come in handy.  You can get all kinds of freebies at the mall and at restaurants, etc.  Why not let the world join in our month-long celebration?!)

Here is a picture of her minutes after she woke up this morning and discovered that the birthday month had begun!!  (She’s on her way to open her present!)

It’s a shirt!  (All of you Three Amigos fans will appreciate this line!)

Claire got dressed right away in her new shirt.  Isn’t she fabulous?!

Oh how I love this girl!  It’s going to be such a fun month!!