Hawiian Party

Whitney's 5th birthday was on Friday. She woke up and put her hand on her head and said, "But I'm still the same size." I love that she expected to be noticeably different in size from one day to the next. I told her she would definitely notice a difference when she turned 10!

I tried to talk Whit into having just a party with us but she said that would be no fun. She wanted a Backyardigan's Volcano Sisters Party. In that episode Tasha and Uniqua are Volcano Goddesses and the boys are trying to find out what they want so they won't make the volcano explode. They give them the pearliest pearl and the tikiest tiki mask just to find out that they only wanted an invitation to the luau. Grandma made hula skirts and bikini tops for Whit's friends as party favors and she painted a flower and a dolphin on their faces. (Adee I don't know how you do parties without her!)
We made paper leis while we waited for erveryone to arrive.
Then we did the hula and played pin the pearl in the oyster, pass the tikki mask,and hot lava rocks. In the lava game the girls were supposed to walk across bubble wrap, aka hot rocks, without popping any bubbles. This game was a big hit. We topped it off with a volcano cake and ice cream. It was a great party. And according to Whitney was way better than just a party with her boring parents and little brother!
A few changes since last year. Whitney's new favorites:

Color: Yellow
Princess: Belle (Aurora sometimes because she has yellow hair)
Animal: Dolphin

Because of these new changes Tom and I gave her a dolphin necklace and dolphin book for her birthday. Thanks Jenica for shipping them straight from the dolphins to Whitney. She thought that it was so cool that the dolphins from Sea World sent her a present. She has worn the necklace every day since and has even slept in it. She wants to swim with the dolphins and wants to take a trip to Sea World.

No Middle Name

Whitney does not have a middle name so she has decided that she would give herself one. Since she has not been able to decide on one her new name is now Whitney Daphne Belle June Cinderella Aurora Jasmine Pocahontas Mulan Ariel Lewis. We will now start calling her the Sister of Ryan because it is a lot easier to say.

I always liked not having a middle name. It seems that middle names are only there so others can make fun of them so I'm glad I missed out on that part of childhood. Whitney however, feels left out so she has given herself 9!!!

Whitney wanted me to mention that she is showing off her new tatoo she got from valentines day. One from Kian and the other from Brandon.

She also really likes to take pictures with the computer camera. These are the ones she wanted to post today.

Some friends you are!!!

You know you have a true friend when you have a big booger on your nose and she tells you about it so you don't look disgusting. Or when you have something in your teeth she will let you know. So in blog land this would then extend to letting your friend know when she has said something completely different than what she meant because she misspelled a word or used another in its place on accident. This neat program does have spell check but it does not check your grammar. My last post was titled "Bugger power". It is spelled correctly but the term bugger generally implys dissatisfaction. What I meant to say was Booger Power, which according to webster is "a piece of dried nasal mucus", or in our case a slimy one.

Although booger is not one of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language, I still managed to screw it up and put an explitive in its place. You can check out the top 100 misspelled words here! So in the future I request that you all tell me when I have made a blogging blunder!! Rather than read the post and move on please let me know so I don't continue to look stupid! Note: This does not imply to my crazy use of commas (I can't help it, I like to use them) or puncuation in general. Just when I have used a word in error thinking it is another.

I forgive you all this time. But remember, if you had a big green booger on your nose, I would tell you. I would even tell you when you misspelled it!

Booger Power

I swear this girl makes me giggle every day. She says some of the funniest things. Here are a few of the things she has said recently.

The other day she was playing in the living room. I came into the room as she turned to me, put her hand in the air, and yelled "Booger Power"! She had a slimy green one on her hand. Funny but disgusting. I laughed then made her wash the bugger power down the sink.

Speaking of boogers. She wouldn't leave her nose alone and I kept asking her to stop picking it. She put her nose right next to mine and so sweetly said, "But I don't eat my boogers". Regardless, no picking sans tissue.

We were sitting on my bed one morning and this was our conversation.
Whit: Your breath stinks!

Me: So does yours.
Whit: No it doesn't.
Me: Yes it does.
I put my hand over her mouth and nose and tell her to blow.
Whit (glaring at me): You put your breath in my mouth!

Nice try kid, but everyone has bad breath in the morning you included!!!

Currently her favorite show is Mamma Mia. She watches and sings it regularly. She was telling me that her favorite song was when the one girl wrapped the towel around the burnt boy. I pushed for further clarification of "burnt". I asked if Kasie was burned. She said no. What about Austin. She said no. So what makes this boy burned? "He's black." According to her Austin and Kasie are brown. I thought about this for a moment from a 4 year old perspective and indeed this actor is much darker than either of my cousins (which happen to be the darkest people she knows) so this boy was obviously in the sun too long. I got out a book and explained to her about melanin and the differences in skin pigmentation. Later that day she was listening to the CD and that song came on. She looked at me and said, "Mom, this is my favorite song. Where she wraps the towel around the boy with lots of lemon." She totally understood the concept even if she didn't remember how to pronounce it.

New Look

So my motivation to blog this again is greatly diminished. I have had problems getting this to post causing this post to get smaller and smaller each time I write it. Thank you Tiff for the tip that sent me to delightfuldots.blogspot.com. You were right, it was so easy even I could do it!

So my parents just got back from a trip to Hawaii. My mom came back as red as a lobster and there is not even a tiny part of me that feels bad. She took some beautiful pictures that I'm sure don't do justice to actually experiencing it on your own. I loved this picture so I thought I would share it with all of you that are very sick of winter.