Big Plans

Amanda makes big plans. She works really hard and makes them happen. That probably deserves a couple blog posts, but that's not what this is about. Emily makes big plans too. She surely learned it from Amanda. We work hard to help her make her plans work out.

She loves to check out Christmas books from the library.  It doesn't matter what season it is.  She finds the Christmas books (and sparkle, fairy, princess books) and loads up her card.  I don't think I was allowed my own library card until the age of accountability.  Emily's advanced.  This Christmas book showed a plate of sugar cookies and that inspired Emily to action.

Caleb made a mess.

Elinor ran and hid.

But Emily realized her dreams.

She recently realized that one can hold a party without a reason. Armed with that fact, she decided that we needed to have a party. She made plans. Amanda wrote them down: "A big party, not a little party. This is not a party for anyone's birthday. It's just a party with food. We need two tables: the black table and the wooden table."

She turned to "The Wheels on the Bus" board book for inspiration.

For food, she listed:

A cake with candles	cupcakes
ice cream	chips & dip
lollipops	popcorn
cookies	hot chocolate
grapes	tomatoes
vegetables	popsicles

It was important to her that we have vegetables, tomatoes in particular. She said she doesn't like them, but she needs them to be strong and healthy.

In the end, it wasn't a very big party. We didn't have vegetables and the cake probably won't help us in the strong and healthy department. Still, she seemed to have a lot of fun.  We put up decorations and had a couple friends over to snack and visit.  Her guests graciously thanked her as they left. We did end up singing happy birthday to her, even though it wasn't a birthday party.  But she didn't mind.