Gwen turns 7! We were excited this year to celebrate birthdays with friends and do birthday parties and Gwen is the lucky kid with the first birthday of the year, so we had a lot of pent up birthday party energy to spend! She picked an underwater/mermaid theme and Alec and I had fun decorating the house with mostly homemade decorations. We hung blue tissue paper loosely around the ceiling lights to give everything a blueish hue. We made octopus with balloons and streamers, and jelly fish with paper plates and ribbons and hung those from the ceiling, then we used green crepe paper to put sea weed along some of the walls. Gwen wanted to keep the birthday party small and only have a few close friends who knew each other so she picked some friends from her school classes the last two years. They made a bubble letter craft, went on a treasure scavenger hunt around the house the ended up with a chest full of 'pearl' necklaces, and played outside in a little kiddie pool and slip n' slide. So fun. We were planning on getting her a bike for her birthday but she used all her saved up money and bought one for herself just a week or so before her birthday. Alec made her a bookcase for her doll house... one that he designed and built with very little help from me... and he filled it with a lot of origami paper books that he made and a wooden clock. He was so excited to do it and give it to her. I know Gwen has serious doubts about Alec's love for her so this was really special to experience. Another favorite gift was the big doll that Grandma Dixie got her. She's named her Cindy and even now as I write this post (2 months later) still enjoys playing with her.
Gwen is a lively, tender-hearted, intelligent girl who loves ballet, reading books, riding bikes, playing crazy with her brothers, and cuddling with her daddy. He's constantly telling her how many tickles she needs every day and she pretty much eats it up. She enjoys building things on minecraft, dancing, singing, playing school, and is really consistent and independent with her Saturday chores. We dearly love our Gwendolyn.
I'm frustrated that my phone was too full to let me take any pictures and so we used our regular camera to get pictures of the party, but with our new computer that has unusable USB ports, I'm not sure how I can access those pictures. :(
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