Birthday Day

Lyla's morning started off really well. When the girls came down this morning, Lyla was very happy to find her long-awaited bike there. She wanted to get right on it and try it out. She rode through the house on her bike for the first half of the day. She just did continuous laps around the middle level and had a blast!
She even liked her new helmet.

They got their favorite breakfast of chocolate donuts with sprinkles. Definitely a good birthday treat!

Lyla really liked Larry the Cucumber that Nina bought for her.

She got some nice birthday calls from family...

...and she and Nina tried on their new Veggie Tales shirts.

Lyla got lots of birthday hugs and kisses from Nina.

For dinner, we went to Chick Fil-A (a Lyla favorite) then came home for some cake and ice cream. Since we'll have her real birthday cake on Saturday, I just made her something small for tonight.

After going strong all day, Lyla was exhausted tonight. The "paci fairy" came last night and took the pacifiers away (she has still been sleeping with them at night), so I wondered if tonight would be a sad night for her, but I think she was too tired to care if the pacis were there or not. There wasn't any crying about it. One funny thing happened this morning when she woke up and saw the note from the paci fairy and the $3 the paci fairy left. We read her the note that said the paci fairy was taking her pacis to give to little boys and girls who don't have pacis, and that the paci fairy left her with $3 instead. She said, "Awww. That's nice." Not ten minutes later, she was looking at the note again and said, "I don't want the $3. I want my pacis back." We got a laugh out of that one.