We officially have an 8 year old! This just seems weird to me, she's half way to 16! NO! That's what everybody keeps saying to us! I swear, time is just flying by faster and faster. We keep asking her to stop having birthdays...we just want her to stay our little girl as long as possible;) Plllleeeeeeeeaaaasssseeeee Hallers!?! Can you just stay 8?;) Pretty please?
This year, for Halle's birthday we asked her if she wanted to do something different instead of having a big party. It just so happened to be Broadway week in the city, so kids were free with the purchase of an adult ticket. We thought this would be so fun! What an exciting thing to remember turning 8! First Broadway show. Lucky girl. We bought tickets for Mary Poppins, but we couldn't get them for on her birthday, so we went on tuesday, the 7th.(More on this night in another post!)
We also told her she could invite one friend to come have a sleep over the weekend before her birthday. She decided to invite Lily from ballet. We hung out with Lily and her mom, Liz when we went to Manhattan for Nutcracker. Lily and Halle really hit it off that day and Halle was so excited to have her come over!
The girls had lots of fun playing with their dolls, making tiaras, going to the park, making pizzas, watching a movie and going to get frozen yogurt! We had so much fun!
Halle and Lily's tiaras they made
Costa painted and decorated his train and plane he made
The finished products
Lily brought Halle a beautiful gift, a new doll!
Girls and their dolls
Costa can't get enough of his dads longboard! AND football...
It was cold! Crew had a red nose;)
Girls trying out the longboard too!
Making pizza!
On the morning of her birthday, Costa was so excited for her to open the present he picked out for her from him and Crew! Legos for girls! Yeah! It's about dang time they came out with those;) Costa's really into legos right now, so he was excited for his sis to get some so they can do them together.
Erik, Crew and I took cookies and flowers to school in the afternoon. Halle was so excited to see us. We got to sing with her class and help her pass out cookies to everybody. It worked out perfectly that I had enough cookies for Costa's class, too so he was pretty excited and surprised to see us!
That night, we made a special dinner. All Halle's favorites! Steak, baked potato and salad. It was nice to have Jen and Paul, our friends that live downstairs come up and celebrate with us. We sang to Halle and enjoyed a super yummy ice cream cake! She was so sweet when she opened the card from Costa...she said she loved it and put her arm around him while she read it! It was precious. Then, the excitement on her face when she opened the camera she's been wanting for so long...priceless.
We made cookies the night before for her class to celebrate!
Getting ready to pass out cookies for her class
Class photo!
Clara, our neighbor from upstairs surprised Halle with a gap charm bracelet!
Make a wish sweet girl!!!
Jen and Paul came up to our apartment to celebrate with us
I love this picture! They are such good buds:)
The flowers we took to school, they blossomed so gorgeous! Just like our Hallers;)
Halle's class loved the sugar cookies we brought for her birthday, we decided to give them the recipe for Valentine's Day!
Special dessert!
