Happy Birthday!

Well I will probably be taking the day off today from everything .... well, okay, I'll be taking a few hours off from everything today ...

Its my youngest child's 9th birthday today!!

She was so excited that she came down at 4am this morning hoping for a greeting like Christmas ... lol ... instead she found us tucked into bed (mom having only gotten to bed 2 hours earlier) sound asleep - at least until we heard her cough.

Then trying to get her back to sleep was impossible -- and just as impossible for us ... she was sooooo excited, and since hubby is one of those damned morning people he was charged by her energy ... and then there just was no getting back to bed --- got to move, got to go, got to hurry.

Geez ... 9 yrs ago I had to get up early and now I've had to get up early yet again. geez.

I still need to wrap her gifts and make her cake ... figure out what to do for frosting since someone ate the frosting out of the container I had and didn't fridge it afterwards (I have my suspicions).

We got her lots of stuff from American Girls for her Springfield Collection doll -- Amanda -- for those who aren't familiar with the Springfield collection, its very much like the American Girls but on the cheap ... the bodies aren't quite as nice, and you don't have a choice of hair/eye/skin color combinations, nor do they have quite as nice hair, and they don't have posible arms/legs ... but they are about 1/4 the $$!

But American girls was having a nice sale going on to promote the release of 'Kit Kittridge' the movie ... so every week for, oh I don't know how long, they had new items on sale - and for a really good discount. So I got her a bunch of stuff.

But I will have to hold some back for Christmas/Yule as well ...