Are you 1? Are you 2? Are you 3? Are you 4?

She is 4! Beata is now a 4 year-old! Pancakes and eggs was her request for breakfast (I think Jakob enjoyed more than the birthday girl :D ).

No fancy birthday cake today, just the good old cupcakes--that Beata loves! We made our own and I let the kids help with the sprinkles.

We went to Build-A-Bear at Oshawa Mall thinking that Beata would be excited to get a new stuffed toy for her birthday...but she does not seem so interested. She was anticipating where we would eat for supper more than choosing her own toy. So, I told my hubby that maybe she might be too young for this Build-A-Bear (I enjoyed it more than she did when we were at the store!) so we will try again next year (maybe with some of her friends for a 5-year old birthday party!). Our original plan did not work and we were caught offguard and didn't know what to do next so we just went with the flow and follow their request to eat at McDonald's though I really prefer a different family restaurant. So there we were, eating chicken nuggets and fries, cheeseburger and fruitopia for supper. Then they played in the playplace for half an hour and then we headed home. I was kind of disappointed that we did not do anything "special" for Beata's 4th birthday but then going home Jakob said that he had fun, and Beata agreed to it. There is a lesson learned here -- big things are not BIG time; it's having fun and spending it with family that matters; we should be content with little things and should not expect too much! Wow!

What a lesson learned from a simple trip at McDonald's!

NOTE: There seems to be a problem uploading the scrapblog I did for Beata's birthday. If you cannot view the slideshow from my blog yeaterday, try clicking on this link http://www.scrapblog.com/Jaquino/057AB427-1196. Remember to view it in full screen, turn up your volume and set the intervels to very, very slow please!