Makenna turns Eleven!

Yesterday was Makenna's birthday.  I am the very proud mama of a gorgeous 11-year old girl.

She planned a birthday party for herself, which took place on Monday.  She invited four friends - three from school, one from church. Oh, and she insisted that Mason and Taelyn be there, which tickled me to no end. The menu:  chicken nuggets and curly fries (health was not really a consideration, I can see).  And rainbow-stuck-in-the-clouds cupcakes that everyone would make themselves.  And mom would hide goodie bags in really hard places outside.  Other than that, she wanted to have free time to play outside. 

That was her plan, and that's exactly what happened.  The weather turned out to be great for playing outside, so they played Man Hunt for much of the time (kind of like Hide and Seek, but with more screaming and running involved.  Then again, any time a bunch of girls get together, there's a lot of screaming).


And she huffed and she puffed and she BLEW the candles out

 Yesterday, on her "real" birthday, we had a low-key family celebration, as per her plan.  She picked the meal again - black bean and brown rice enchillada casserole (healthier this time!!!) and coleslaw and icecream (to balance out the health?).  We stuck her candles in the icecream and sang happy birthday again.  We played Dutch Blitz, checked out our new pets (more details in another post), tickled her till she was gasping, and stuck her to bed. She fell asleep in under 15 minutes. Turns out 11-year-olds  need sleep, too.

She has one more birthday plan up her sleeve.  It involves grandmas and grandpas and papas and a soon-to-open icecream shop called Bumpers.