Hi All, just a quick update. Allison turned five a little over a week ago! The day before her birthday, we shared the following conversation:

Me: Today is the very last day you are going to be four years old!
Allison: Thank goodness! I HATED being four!
Me: hated being four?
Allison: YES! Absolutely HATED it.

LOL, you should have heard the way she said this….first I’ve heard of it though..I thought four was a pretty good year

Her birthday was indeed wonderful. All day long she kept telling me that it was the best day of her life. Got her a few little presents…a grow-a-frog, where you send off for a tadpole (EVERY SINGLE DAY…”IS THE TADPOLE HERE YET?” LOL)….some more sea monkeys (We killed hers a while back…Jess tried to change the water, not realizing that they had just had babies…threw out all the microscopic babies, and the few adults that had remained died in the untreated water….lesson learned, lol), a game, an Ello pet set, a small fur-real puppy….a few clothing items…nothing major..then we went out to Gunther Toody’s for dinner, where they made her dance. She was MORTIFIED…looked like she was going to cry the entire time - you should have seen her face! - but still she danced, lol..At least it was at our table, and not in front of the entire restaurant or something. Afterwards she said it was fun, but when she was doing it she was so afraid that it was going to last a VERY long time, lol. She had no trouble dancing with Chuck-E-Cheese at her party though…maybe because there were other kids doing it too. I need to upload the pictures - soon….then we went to the petstore for a bit, and got home very late to do cake and ice cream. We did her party at Chuck-E-Cheese on the Monday following her birthday. She had a blast. Chuck-E-Cheese wouldn’t have been my first choice, but I am VERY pregnant, and this seemed like an easy option. It wasn’t that bad…since it was on a Monday, at a new Chuck-E-Cheese, it wasn’t that busy..the kids all had a great time….And now, after that crazy long weekend…birthday friday, soccer and another kid’s birthday party on Saturday, mother’s day on Sunday and her birthday party on Monday…..things are starting to settle down back to normal.