Isabella turned 8!
They say time flies when you are having FUN and I am enjoying watching
Isabella grow into a beautiful young lady!
On her birthday she woke up at 5:30 a.m. super excited to
celebrate her day.
I remember when I was a little girl, my mother always made
our birthdays special. She would always
make a homemade cake that was beautifully decorated. She must have spent hours decorating our
cakes. They were show stoppers. Like the kind you would walk into a bakery
and buy. I always looked forward to her
cakes and they always made my eyes light up.
And my favorite was, she would always ask what WE wanted for dinner on
our birthday. Nothing makes a girl feel
more special than when she gets to pick what her meal is on her birthday. I always chose spaghetti or meatloaf. Those were my favorite home cooked meals that
mom made.
I would like to say that I am carrying on my mother’s birthday
tradition….however let’s be honest here, I don’t have the patience to decorate
a cake for hours. Nor do I want to. For years, I have been buying Isabella’s
birthday cake at a bakery. Well this
year, she put a stop to that. I asked
her what kind of cake she wanted and she said, “Mommy, I want to make my own
cake!” Because when you buy them at the
bakery, the cake has strawberries inside and I don’t like that! I took Isabella to the store and she picked
out a yellow cake with pink frosting.
Giselle, Isabella and I baked her cake in the kitchen together and she
LOVED every minute of it. I have carried
on the dinner tradition and this year Isabella wanted cheese pizza. I guess I got off easy this year because I
didn’t bake the cake nor did I cook dinner!
All in all, Isabella had a grand birthday complete with
Dunkin Donuts for breakfast, cheese pizza for dinner and pink cake! The day before her birthday, I took her to
the store and let her pick out an entire outfit complete with shoes so she
could feel super special on her birthday.
She also wanted to paint her nails, so we did that together. She got lots of goodies for her birthday that
included new clothes, a chess set, lots of Lego's and crafts, her favorite! She was most excited about her new basketball
hoop in which Grandpa Dale and Bob put together for her. Isabella and Giselle have been playing
basketball in the driveway non-stop since it was put together! Over the weekend, we had a celebration with
her Grandma’s and Grandpa’s and Aunt Jen, Uncle Mike and Tristan! For the
weekend celebration, Isabella baked white cupcakes with white rainbow frosting!
Here are some pictures from her birthday celebrations!
Here are some of my favorite photos of Isabella Marie over the course of time....
Baby girl, KEEP being YOU! I love your free spirit. Your effervescence for life! Your compassion towards others. Your love for crafts and making things with your hands. How you always look out for your little sister Giselle. Your LOVE. Your beautiful SMILES. How you love math and chess and Lego's!
I LOVE YOU Isabella Marie. KEEP BEING YOU!
Love Mom
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