Four and a Half Cupcakes

I love cupcakes!  When I stumbled upon a recipe for Pink Lemonade Cupcakes in the Big Book of Cupcakes, I thought this would be perfect for Elizabeth's 4 1/2 birthday.  This year we stayed home, shared our cupcakes with Grandpa, and played on the slip & slide.

Elizabeth has grown so much since 3 1/2, as have the others.  It's amazing to look back and see them!  She doesn't look like a baby any more.  She looks like a beautiful little girl.  And she loves cupcakes, too!  She enjoyed the lemonade cupcakes, but has already requested chocolate for her 5th birthday cupcakes.

Happy Four and a Half!

So hard to wait!

Happy Half Birthday, Elizabeth!!!

Very excited about her day!

Rebekah reading has nothing to do with
Elizabeth's Half Birthday,
but it sure was cute.

Beautiful girl enjoying her day!

"Now take a picture of Lambie"

Cute Little Sister

Handsome Big Brother

I told Elizabeth I would make whatever she wanted for dinner to celebrate her half birthday. She requested peanut butter sandwiches at the park. OK! I started packing the picnic basket and called MawMaw and Grandpa to see if they'd like to picnic with us. Then it started raining... so we moved to McDonald's. And yes, Elizabeth still ate a peanut butter sandwich!

She also requested cupcakes, so we took the cupcakes to McDonald's with us.

Before...

What an adorable cupcake!!!
3 1/2 pink M&M's on board and a sparkly pink star.
(I had no intention of lighting the star,
because we don't blow out candles
or have presents for half birthdays.)

After! Yum!

Then we got to play!!!

David directly overhead

Rebekah disappeared up the slide!
Luckily she ran into MawMaw at the top!

Running around having fun!

Happy Half Birthday, Elizabeth!!!
3 1/2 years old today!