Birthday in the time of Quarantine

Birthday's in the time of quarantine with online school weren't very exciting.  To make it a little more fun I let the kids pick 5 special things for the day.  Sadly, months later, most of them don't remember much about their birthday or the 5 special things - but I can tell you we tried really hard to make it awesome on their big day 😉.

Here are Kate's memories from her birthday:  I had smeesecake and we watched Cool Running, Desandants 3, and Invisible Sister, because we got to borrow Val's Disney Plus for the day for my birthday (I think most of her special things involved watching tv).  I also had a zoom dance class.  I had rainbow sherbet.  I got tennis shoes, markers, money for new demipoint shoes, a doll dog, doll leotard, ear rings, and a gift card from grandma.

Natali got a special treat on her birthday because Grandma and Grandpa came home from AZ early, just in time to celebrate the double birthday.  It was a big birthday for Natali - turning 18 on the 18th!  So I made a point to wrap each of her gifts separate so that she had 18 presents - trying hard to make it memorable since she couldn't have any friends over.

Several of her friends stopped by with gifts.  She spent hours outside, social distancing and chatting.   She picked for everyone to sleep in, have twice baked potatoes for dinner, no dishes, and her major wish - to listen to whatever music she wanted without the boys complaining.

Emily turned 10 just a few weeks later.  She wanted blue velvet cake again but this year I couldn't find a cake mix so I had to make it all from scratch.  Emily helped though, planning and decorating it.

She picked to watch Harry Potter and eat Peeps - she can't remember the other stuff. Most of her gifts were for her dolls - just how she wanted it. 

Andrew planned his 5 things early - Luke spent the night, we ate lunch at Chick-fil-a, watched the new star wars movie, had extra screen time, and ate cinnamon rolls for breakfast.  He got a new pair of cleats from the older kids, sugar cereal, fishing stuff, juice and a new game called Nimix 6.  He ordered his amazing DQ cake through the drive through window and loved it - execpt that the blue frosting was so so so blue that it dyed anything it touched, teeth, fingers, lips, cheeks- it was horrible.  Never again; it looked beautiful but it was not worth the mess.  Can't believe he is 15 already- he has offically passed me in height and I'm sure that his big growth spurt is just around the corner.