Kira's 5th Birthday

Kira received a package from Mimi and Papa Franson to kick off her birthday season this year.  She loves her new Frog and Toad and Little Bear books!  

She was quite excited to go to school the morning of her birthday!  Here she is about ready to leave:

She got to go on a special "date" with my mom after school was over.  They ate and went to the mall together.  This girl loves to buy clothes.  Well, she loves when other people buy her clothes.  And she's good at getting my mom to buy them for her too.  

Adam and I bought her a new bike this year for her birthday!  (She really needed one.)  She was very surprised and extremely excited to ride it.

This year she wanted a pirate-themed birthday party with her little friends.  It was SO fun!  Each kid got bandannas (quickly cut out of fabric from my fabric bins) and eye patches (very easily made) to wear for the party.  They decorated wooden treasure boxes and watched some of Kira's favorite show on TV: Jake and the Neverland Pirates.  

I made her this pirate cake:

Ava's haircut

She was growing the infamous baby mullet.  It had to be remedied...

 

She was pretty excited. 

 

 

Tire Swinging!

The Teddy Bear Bandage

Kira had bandages like this one on for a week after her bilateral otoplasty.  She was so cute!

 

Here she is getting her bandage replaced at the doctor's office for the first time after the surgery. She was so brave and did very well.  She got the purple and pink unicorn mini pillow pet that you see the day before her surgery to take with her into the OR.  She has been pretty attached to it ever since.

 

This is the first time we got to see her "new ears."  It was pretty exciting.  This was just 2 days after her surgery , so her ears were still a bit swollen and just a tad bruised in these pictures, but healing very well and looking good!