Officially double digits!

We celebrated Evie's big 1-0 birthday last week! I can't believe she's already double digits! It is really mind boggling how fast time flies. It only seemed like yesterday that she was this sweet little bundle we were taking home from the hospital.

For her actual birthday, she woke up to some balloons and a pile of gifts on the kitchen table. I cooked her requested breakfast of French Toast Bites, and then she jumped on her Zoom class for the day. Since it was a Wednesday, she was out of school early and set up a Zoom birthday call with several of her friends where they basically just chit chatted for an hour. I had offered to book a virtual escape room and even found her some online games like pictionary and scattegories but she didn't want any of my help with her party! For dinner, we had Evie's favorite chicken (aka orange chicken), and then a home made apple pie. My pie wasn't nearly as good as Grammie's, but it was a good substitute.

At 10, Evie is at this really interesting in between age of being a kid and a grown up. She still very much likes to snuggle and hang out with us, especially at bed time. However, for other things (like her birthday party!) she wants to do it all on her own. She still likes babyish type shows like Bluey but then also has gotten into watching shows like Top Chef Jr, The Voice and other shows that are not cartoons anymore. She likes to listen to both kid and adult podcasts too!

She loves to read and was really really into Wings of Fire and Warriors for a long time (she still kind of is), and has recently taken to digital art drawing. She does this through Scratch (online coding) and through some ipad apps, where she mostly likes to draw anime cats and girls. She's generally a great kid that goes with the flow, but I can see the sass starting to come in every now and again! I am so not looking forward to the teenage years coming up.

She still plays the flute, and is hit or miss with enjoying sports - we haven't gotten the kids into any real organized sports so it's more about going on bike rides, hikes, throwing the frisbee or playing badminton the lawn. She was pretty open to swimming and snorkeling in Hawaii, so at least there's that!

Anyway, Evie really is a fanastic kid growing up into a fantastic young adult. We love her to bits and pieces and hope she has a wonderful year!

birthday morning surprise

Can you guess what they are signalling with their hands?

Happy birthday pie!

Family portrait

Beautiful 10 year old!

I made a bonus cake this weekend for her slumber party with K+K. It was a birthday ice cream pie of Oreo crust, fudge and cherry ice cream.

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