Aleah's 4th Birthday!

Aleah wanted a "Wellie Wisher" birthday party this year with her cousins.  We decided to meet up on a weekday at First Christian Church in Champaign.  I already had Hadley for the day, and Uncle Paul, Aunt Emily, Aunt Betsy, Grandma Teresa, and even daddy got to come over during lunch!  

I made Wellie Wisher cookies:

and butterfly sandwiches:

That Sunday, Grandma Teresa made her a giant cake after church:

and she got Moana gifts:

That night, we had the Downing side over for dinner.... (and we went to see a house in between the two parties... which we decided to buy!).... It was a cRaZy week!

And then a couple of weeks later, we got to celebrate at Grandma Jody's and Papa Bob's:

She got 3 new Wellie Wisher outfits:

On her actual birthday, she was stuck at home with the stomach flu.  It was no fun at all!  But a sweet lady who we don't know too well saw on facebook that she shares a b-day with Aleah and was sad for her being sick on her special day, so she brought Aleah some special surpises  It was a very nice gesture!

Despite being sick on her actual birthday, it worked out that her parties were the 5th, 8th, and 21st.  She still got plenty of celebrations in!  We love our new 4 year old!

Aleah's Tuesday School

Aleah did a year of Tuesday school this year since she still had another year before Kindergarten.  It was just one morning a week at Second Church of Christ.  She really enjoyed it!

She got to be in a class with her cousin, Madelyn:

She had a really sweet teacher, Ms. Mary Kay:

She did a good job singing in her Christmas program:

Sadly, she missed her closing program due to the stomach flu.  It was a great introduction year to school, and she's looking forward to going to our church preschool next year!

Easter

Easter weekend was crazy this year, as we had a SNOWSTORM which moved our annual church Easter Egg Hunt inside!

I let the kids have fun dying Easter Eggs:

The Easter Bunny made a visit:

We had church at the High School again this year, which was a major project for me, setting up a "cry room" and helping with the childrens choir, which my older three all sang in.

After church, we went to Grandma and Papa's house for lunch.  Pink was the color of the year!

Papa Steve got to join us this year!

We had almost all of the cousins there!

Grandma Jody and Papa Bob were out of town for Easter, so we got to have an egg hunt there a few weeks later in conjunction with Aleah's b-day celebration: