Double-Digits!

When a child is young, it's so hard to imagine them growing up.  Megan hit double-digits on Tuesday -- TEN YEARS OLD!  It's hard to believe that I've been a mom for that long honestly.

I flew home from my Grandma's funeral ON her birthday but she still wanted to celebrate that evening and I thought we could pull it off.  She requested tacos for dinner and a cherry pie for her birthday dessert.  Warning - don't put candles in a pie until you're sure it's cooled down.  The ones we put in kept falling over and then when Chopper tried to adjust them, he discovered they had all melted halfway!  So we ate pie with bits of melted wax in it I guess . . .

After dinner Megan opened presents and generally we just had a really nice enjoyable evening! Her favorite items were mini Hatchimals and Calico Critters but also some fun books (a cat encyclopedia!) and a cat sweatshirt.  She really really loves cats right now and Chopper has told her she can have one when we move back to the states!

Blowing out candles on the birthday pie

At TEN YEARS OLD Megan's favorites are: 

favorite color - yellow

favorite book (right now) - she doesn't know (she reads a lot)

favorite movie - Guardians of Ga-Hoole (the owl one)

favorite thing to do in her spare time - read or draw or play with toys

favorite food - oranges

favorite holiday - Christmas and Easter

When she grows up she wants to be a mommy (because then she can have cute babies - she really likes cute babies!)

She would like to add that she thinks mommy is a weirdo.