Bugs is 7!

Holy moly crazy, Bugs is 7! That’s so crazy to think. I mean it doesn’t feel like just yesterday that she was a baby, yes I remember it but it’s wasn’t just yesterday. We’ve been through so much in the last 7 years. The fun joys of infancy, moving to an apartment, then moving again and Robert coming with us. Then we moved to Daddy’s house, got a few more animals, became a big sister, learned firsthand about loss and now becoming a big sister again. She’s grown up so much it’s sometimes hard to believe she’s 7. Though we’ve come to the attitude stage (yes worse than the 2s ha), you’d swear she was a teen already, I don’t know what I’d do without her. I love seeing her grow up and learn about life and grow into her own little-miss-self. Though somedays can be stressful, I’m so happy and blessed she calls me Mom.
She’s had a fun birthday day and it’s only going to continue this week.
Woke her up singing Happy Birthday and she just laughed! I made some treats for her to take to school…well I made two. It was a disaster! [Key info, two kids in her class have peanut allergies] I thought I was doing really good, got white cake and was going to make apple cupcakes with homemade frosting (butter, brown sugar and powdered sugar) thinking that would be great, no peanuts right? Not! I wasn’t really thinking and before I made the cupcakes I made peanut butter cookies and used the same bowl (washed it with hot water and soap but not through the dish washer) so scratch that batch to be safe. Then I decided I would make the cereal chocolate mix I made for her party a few years ago…again no peanuts right? Just Corn Chex, Lucky Charms, white chocolate and sprinkles…yeah got everything ready then read on the chocolate bag and it says “may contain peanuts”, what the heck! So I decided scratch the chocolate and use marshmallows, like rice crispies…what a sticky mess that was. Well out of time so we’ll just go with it. Then I picked up Bugs at school….those kids don’t eat the snacks anyways! Grrrr. I mean I understand better safe than sorry…but still grrrr it was very stressful for me, I tried really hard so they wouldn’t feel left out of the fun. So Bugs and I decided that from now on we’ll bring like fruit snacks and juice boxes. After dance class we made salad, spaghetti & breadsticks, Bugs choice, and she got to open “all” of her presents. She’s gotten a few here and there this past week but she was really excited to now get to open all of them ha. Silly girl.
Then tomorrow it’s up to Auntie Angee’s then to Papa’s for lots of food and you know more presents ;) .