Yes, birthday season is upon the Stubblefield home. Only one not so lucky member of this family has his birthday not within the 26 days between Feb. 28 and March 25. We’ve had quite a bit of fun celebrating and planning for our birthdays this year. My birthday is Feb 28th (which was a Monday this year) and Rachelle’s is March 1st, so we decided for her first b-day we would invite family over for FHE and celebrate our b-days together… that was the plan until she woke up Monday morning throwing up! Darn! The party was off .  But we still needed to figure out the rest of the day because I had planned a little fire station field trip for Jackson’s preschool class and other things that I wasn’t going to take a poor little sick girl to.  Micah saved the day – he took some time off work and it  turned out to be a really nice day! I was able to go on the little outing with Jackson and Lacey and then we relaxed at home for most of the day. It was like a holiday! Micah had taken Jackson and Lacey to help him get some gifts for me on Saturday and they were so excited to see me open these gifts they picked out. It was so fun. I had made our cakes the night before, but I put Chelle’s in the freezer until she was ready to celebrate. We ended up having Score bar cake that night for dessert and for several nights after!  Yum! I had several visitors come by including my sisters and a few friends and it really ended up being such a nice day (minus poor little Chelle  feeling horrible all day, but she slept a lot!).

We ended up letting Chelle open her presents on her b-day. She was still not feeling great, but it was cute to see her get a little smile on her face while she opened her presents. The older kids loved helping her open and play with her toys! She seemed to get a little better throughout the day and after a really good sleep that night we decided the next day after dinner we would sing to her and let her have her cake. She wasn’t really into it, besides the frosting flower on top (the pictures were taken after a little encouragement and examples from Lacey and Jackson). I had a really cute cake that I was planning to do, but I just couldn’t get myself to start the marshmallow fondant. So Rachelle got this cake instead. That night she got the gift from Grandma, and that has been a huge hit with everyone here. It wasn’t the b-day celebration I wanted for her, but I guess life happens. It was fun to celebrate our sweet little girl! Every day she is more animated and funny. She loves her brother and sister. She loves to be held. She doesn’t walk yet, although she’s taken about 4 steps by herself and I’m sure she can walk  if she just decides she wants to.  She loves to cuddle with me and daddy – I love that.  I finally put her hair in a tiny pony tail the other day – so cute! We love our baby (or not so baby) Chelle! The time has flown by!