Your Oldest Friend Turns 4!

Dear Abigail,

I can't believe it.  Your oldest friend turned 4 this week.  You and Ryan go way back.  I can remember our first visit to his house.  You threw up on his carpet.  And your first Christmas together - you were not in the mood for pictures.  

Even your first (of many) beach trip together - such cuties.  

Here we are 4 years later and Ryan is still a favorite of yours.  So off we went to celebrate at Pump It Up and man alive, were you pumped up about it!  You (and your sis) were looking mighty cute, too, if I do say so myself...

You had no problems adjusting to Ryan's other friends (friends from school) and showed them that yes, you do have some killer dance moves... 

 I'm pretty sure Ryan had a blast because I could NOT get him to sit still for a second!

 Oh, and you were quite thrilled to see Chloe there.  I think you had forgotten that Ryan is the reason you know Chloe, although you say she is "Ellie's Chloe", but I think she can be your Chloe now, since you do see her every day you have school and you always play with her on the play ground, apparently running from monsters, or so you told me.

 I think you all had a blast, but especially on this thing.  All of you tried and tried to climb to the top, over and over again...

 Believe it or not, you made it to the top and were the only one.  But there was a little cheating involved, or, well, we will call it a bit of cleverness involved.  You found these rope things you could hold onto and just climbed on up to the top.  As usual, you amazed everyone with your climbing abilities.
Daddy was in charge of taking the group shot, so this is what we got.  Bless his heart, he tries.

 And this was the best I could get of you beside your oldest friend Ryan at his 4th birthday!!!

You enjoyed the cupcakes and to make it even more special, you got to spend the night with Ellie!  Aunt Steph said you both fell asleep in the same bed for the second time in a row and this time it wasn't 10 at night!  Hooray!!!  We joined you at Ellie's on Sunday for football and hamburgers and by the time you left, you were EXHAUSTED.  You were also so sad because all you wanted to do was spend the night with Ellie.  You just sat in your car seat softly whimpering and when I said "what's wrong" you just cried and said "I just want to spend the night with Ellie." As if you had never gotten to before, like not even the night before.  To say the least, you were tired.  It was a fun weekend, though, so it was worth a few tears to wrap it up!  Love you and we love some Ryan, too!!