Anika’s 4th Birthday

September 27, 2010 — ehrenester

Today our precious Ani is 4 years old. She has been so excited for her birthday to come and the last week that was all she talked about every day. Presents never really crossed her mind because all she wanted was a tea party and a barbie cake. So every day and many times a day she would ask me if it was time for her tea party and if I was going to make the cake soon. Finally, yesterday we had family over for a little tea party with appetizers, tea, hot chocolate and cake. I don’t know who was more excited about the barbie cake, me or her. It turned out way better I ever expected. My main thing though is for the cake to taste good even if it doesn’t look that nice and this one was both so I was really happy. It was a strawberry cake with an almond pound cake bottom and it was so moist and yummy. The frosting was also pretty good which I’m always skeptical about because I hate the super sugary and rich frostings. It had frozen strawberries and whipping cream mixed in it so it was lighter and had the real strawberry taste to it. I actually bought a can of store bought frosting because I was worried mine would turn out too runny to spread the cake with and I had one taste of it and threw it in the garbage. How can anyone say those frostings are any good? Yuck! Anyway, it turned out beautifully, probably my best cake so far and Anika was really excited about it. She was pretty excited to open her gifts too. She got a sturdier jogging stroller for 2 dolls from us. I thought since she’s going to see me a lot with our jogging stroller these days she would like to play mommy too. Her and Emily really liked it and were both pushing it around the house together. The problem was when Kason got the wind of it and then it was fighting over the stroller from then on. He loves pushing it around so we might get a small stroller from Jessica so they can both have one. Ani also got a really pretty dress from nana and a toy with little babies, and a cinderella carriage from Emily and she was really excited about all of them. She has really grown a lot lately and seems so much taller. Ani is also getting so much more interested in school stuff. When I have a chance in the afternoons we do preschool lessons and activities which we call school and some days she’d be just waiting for us to start school already. She loves to learn new things right now and is pretty good with phonics and letters, just the math part is a bit hard for her but then again she doesn’t need to know everything before she goes to school. I am glad that she has an extra year before she goes to school since her birthday is past the Sept. 1st cut-off day, because she can slowly learn all the skills other kids have to learn in a year. I can already tell it will help her confidence a lot too. Anika also loves her little friends. It’s too bad there aren’t many girls her age at our church, it’s mostly boys so I’m really thankful Ani has Emily to play with. They are so cute together and such good friends already. Somehow their personalities just click or something because they very rarely even argue or fight. I really hope they stay close as they grow older. My cousin (whose name – Sarlota is Anika’s middle name) was my best friend growing up and she was so special to me, like a sister I didn’t have so I’d love for Ani to have that. It’s hard to be the only girl sometimes and other times it’s nice because that girl is so much more treasured.