Molly's 9th Birthday

Molly turned 9 on December 29th. She celebrated with a sleepover party with 6 other friends from school. On Sunday the 28th, the friends arrived around 1 pm. Craig, Maya and mom escorted the 7 girls to our train stop and downtown to the DGI Byen Swim Center. This place is amazing with a play pool surrounded by a circular lap pool and a separate area for diving - with 6 different levels and springboards. Another room as 2 separate hot water pools. They didn't allow pictures inside, due to some rule they couldn't explain. Go figure. So we have a picture outside.

After a train ride home, the girls chowed on pizza, opened presents, then played team pictionary, treasure hunt and white elephant. After home made chocolate cake and ice cream they set up the living room for the sleeping portion. They watched Home Alone 3. Some girls fell asleep around 11 and others stayed up until 1 and later. Molly had a bad cough and threw up her dinner in her parent's bed at midnight. She spent the rest of the night in the guest bed with dad.

The next morning Molly was fine and the girls continued to play, watch Mamma Mia, eat waffles and pack up for a pick-up at 10 am. The rest of the day, her real birthday was spent hanging out around the house while mom cleaned and did laundry, preparing for the Switzerland trip and dad was at work.

Molly is a brilliant, generous and thoughtful young lady who loves to do handstands around the house, over and over, all day long. She likes to read Judy Moody and Amber Brown, plays Webkinz and Club Penguin on the computer, loves gymnastics, dance, soccer, softball and swimming. She loves being busy and would rather go out than stay in. Her favorite foods are pasta and pizza and any kind of fruit except bananas. She still lovs to cuddle and have books read to her. She always brightens up the room and we love her dearly.