Logan's Birthday

Logan turned 4 on January 28th!  I can't believe that our little baby is FOUR.  When I look at her, it's hard to imagine she was ever a 6lb 7oz baby.  But she's turning into such a sweet thing, it's so much fun to walk alongside her as she grows.

We had big plans for Logan's birthday.  Sunday night we met up with Aunt Diane and Uncle Thom for dinner and cake!  Logan requested Moe's because she loves the "Cheesey-dias."

Then we headed home and had some cake.  We went to Target earlier in the week and Logan looked through their big book of cakes and picked the one she wanted.  No input from mom this year, which was strange but exciting (and bittersweet).  We tasked Mike with picking up candles, but he forgot so this was his improvisation for her:

Brody enjoyed the cake very, very much.

The Boles' got Logan a tent that is more like two little houses that connect and the kids love it!  They play with it all of the time.

We had planned to take Logan and several of her girlfriends to our local tea house for a tea party.  Unfortunately, Logan woke up the night before her birthday with a bad, bad stomach bug and we ended up having to cancel the party.  It was a hard decision to make, but we did our best to make the day a special one at home.

We always tell Logan that God has blessed her with a best friend that gets to live with her and that she should be so thankful to always have a playmate.  And I think it hit her on her birthday how true it was.  Even though we couldn't go out and celebrate, she had someone at home who was glad to celebrate and play with her, sick and all!

Logan got several bitty baby/big girl outfits that matched.  She and Lucy will be stylin' together come spring!

Mike and I really weren't sure what to get Logan until about 2 weeks before her birthday.  That's when the Sofia the First costume was released on the disney store online.  After confirming that's what we wanted to get her with Mike, I went to order it (a mere 12 hours after it's release) and it was SOLD OUT.  I contacted their customer service and they said they had no idea when it'd be back in stock (it still isn't, by the way).  I called our disney store in town who didn't have it and told me that it hadn't been released to physical stores yet and then called my sister in law to brainstorm.  She called her store who actually did confirm that the physical stores have them, but that they had just sold out.  They did tell her when their next shipment would come in, though.  

So as we waited for that shipment to come in (hoping they'd have her size) I started calling other disney stores--in Miami, in Orlando, Tallahassee, basically anywhere I had friends or family who could pick it up and ship it to me.  After talking to another lady, who I "met" through the disney store facebook page, I realized that if I asked, any store would ship merchandise for me.  They don't advertise this because they don't want their stores to turn into warehouse distribution centers.  So I started calling every store I could get numbers for and finally found one in Queens, NY who had one in stock in L's size.  It was a thrilling victory for me...Mike just shook his head and laughed.  Thankfully, Lindsey was able to pick up the amulet (Sofia's special necklace) from her Disney Store as it was the other coveted item I was unable to locate.

All of the effort was worth it when this little one opened it up!

She had no idea that they had released the costume and was shocked to see it in her birthday bag.

 

By the end of the day she was feeling much better.  We're going to try and get out sometime this week and take some 4 year pictures and then I'll do a post with all of her 4 year stats.  

Happy Birthday, sweet Logan!