Happy 12th Birthday, Willow!

We were thankful to be able to celebrate Willow's birthday with family and friends this year! Gramps and Gramma were able to come down for a week and the rest of the family came over for dinner on her actual birthday. She even got to have a party with friends, which wasn't able to happen last year due to COVID. We hope she felt loved and celebrated!

She's created a band called Oblivion with a couple friends from school and asked for microphones and speakers for her birthday (for when they start performing). Her parents settled on a karaoke machine that records and has multiple microphones as a more feasible option. ;)

Enjoying a game of Villianous with Gramps and Gramma!

 

She chose a DQ blizzard cake to have with family on her actual birthday:

She had a few friends sleep over for her birthday party and they enjoyed 90 minutes as a private party for them at a local gym that does bungee and hammock classes. They had a blast and I was just thankful to be able to withstrain myself from jumping in with them! The owner did a great job leading them through different skills but then balancing that with a little free time to play around (sometimes you were just waiting for someone to fall and get hurt!!) 

I'd "inspired" Willow with videos from this gym's Instagram account. They came up with and practiced this routine on their own. 

Willow picked out the design, cake flavors, and icing type/color of her cake and thankfully was sweet enough to not panic when I ran out of icing. She simply said, "We can just put that part in the back!" I'm not sure I'll ever forget my foolishness nor her grace when I look at this picture!

We came back to the house for cake and presents, then they played games, watched a movie, sang songs on the karaoke machine, and just giggled around a lot which was sweet to hear. 

My sweet Aunt Linda sewed these pillow cases for the kids and they love them! Harry Potter for Willow and Pokemon for Owen (he can name all the characters!!) 

Happy birthday sweet girl!

 Here's Willow's 20 questions video

Favorite color: purple

Favorite activity: singing

Favorite fruit: cantaloupe

Favorite TV show: Soya Luna

Favorite thing to eat at lunch: grilled cheese with pepperoni

Favorite type of clothes to wear: tshirt and shorts

Favorite game to play: Villianous, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza, Ticket to Ride

Favorite snack: Jack Link with cheese and pepperoni

Favorite animal: cat

Favorite song: Oblivion's Song "One Million Stars"

Favorite book: Rangers Apprentice

Best friend: Grace, Hope, Bella, Layla, Cadence

Favorite cereal: Life

Favorite thing to do outside: pet kittens, trampoline

Favorite drink: milk

Favorite holiday: Christmas

What do you take to bed at night? blankie, water

Favorite thing to eat at breakfast: bagel

What did you have for dinner on your birthday? Chinese

What job do you want to have when you're older? singer

Here are her stats from her well-visit in June:

Height: 5'5 1/2" (98%ile)

Weight: 116 lbs (84%ile)

BMI 19.01 (61%ile)