My Sunny Seven Year Old

From the past year;

















And then this morning, we woke her up with 7 candles stuck into a king dong. Yep. At 6:30 a.m, my daughter was eating a king dong, and loving every bite of it!




Then, after school, we gave her our presents.

Much begged for Converse;

Don't you love her little hat? She celebrated in school too, and brought a snack to share with the class.

And of course, everyone needs a "birthday rodent" You can't see it because it's about as big as my thumb, but he's in there. All 2 inches of him. A teeny tiny baby hamster. (I give him about two weeks in this household)






Happy 7th Birthday my sweet Mylie Belle! Your big blue eyes light up a room. We love you more then you'll ever understand. So glad God gave you to us. We are so blessed, and so lucky, to have you!

Party #2.

Since we like to spread out birthdays, we had a small party with grandma and grandpa earlier this week. I like to make sure each present is made a big deal over, and sometimes, if there are too many things given at once, the giver might feel alittle neglected.

Thus more then one celebration for birthdays.

Mylie had a few requests of some toys she had been wanting....and lo and behold...she got them! It was fun to see her so excited, getting exactly what she asked for. Thank you mom and dad for the nice cake, the gifts, the fellowship, and for making all our girls always feel so special.

Party #1.

Our little Mylie Belle will be 7 on Thursday. But we DeBackers like to make birthdays last at least a week.

Over the weekend Mylie had three of her closest friends over to celebrate.


The table, ready for a craft;







The cake...that I made by the way...Chris is usually the cake-man in this house. I was very pleased with myself;

The friends;

A dip in the hot tub...how cool of a party is that?




And of course, singing, eating, opening and spanking;







There are probably three more "mylie" posts coming up..stay tuned.

Bored.

Today we woke up and it was cold and rainy. Much different then what it was yesterday.. we were outside playing in the yard. It was warm....and sunny!

So today was kind of depressing.

On a whim, we decided to go to Ann Arbor. Went to the U of M campus to a museum there that was free. Free is always good.

Of course, when you hear the word "free" you know it's either not really free, or it's not really great.

After my husband and kids read this they will be just disgusted with my attitude I am sure. But honestly? The museum...it wasn't that great. At least for me it wasn't. I mean, it wasn't horrid, but it wasn't a jaw dropping "wow-we-gotta-come-back-here-again" museum. But then again it takes quite a lot to impress me..and it takes quite a lot to keep my attention.





I know that a mother can make or break an activity. Because the saying is so true, "if momma aint happy, nobody is happy" and although this wasn't really my type of outing, I tried to make it fun for myself by snapping random pictures...nothing really at all to do with the museum...but it kept me from being bored by looking at stuffed owls, snakes and frogs.





Oh fun...I can take a picture of all us in the bathroom by using the mirror. That was fun for me. In fact, lets try another:




Ok, the only way you know we are in a museum is by seeing the picture of the sign I took before we came in, so here...we really were there, and my girls LOVED it by the way. They think pretty much anything is awesome...oh to see life through the eyes of a child again!








There were dinosaur bones and fossils...there was a huge display on evolution, and there were monkey skulls..and people skulls...and all sorts of skulls.

There was even this big room dedicated to galaxies, solar systems and the speed of light....but all I could think about was how cool Darby looked in her brand spankin new Converse tennis shoes we just bought her:

And again, just how much fun it was to take a picture in the mirror! I think I could have hung out in that bathroom all afternoon while my family kept looking at stuffed shrews, raccoons and staring at the naked plastic people in the indian exhibit.