5 on Friday

1. Happy belated birthday to my wonderful husband, Nick! I didn't get anything up on here on Tuesday... I am behind.

2. Ellie greeted Daddy in bed with "Hap Birth-day, Daddy!" and sang the Happy Birthday song to him on the way to work/day-care (with certain lines on repeat). She also helped open his present and was a little upset when he opened the card instead of letting her do it.

3. Sunday we celebrated with Nick's mom and husband. Nick and Jeff picked up our outdoor furniture and set it up, then we hit up John and Nick's for dinner.

4. Ellie and Daddy went to the bike shop on Monday night to get Ellie a new bike helmet, as she has outgrown her current one. They came home with a red one. It is blood and spiders. Ellie picked it out because she knows the color red. I asked her if Mommy could exchange it for a purple one without bugs. She said yes, although she wasn't too sure about it. I want to let her pick out her own things and be independent, but this helmet is going to last a while (it is a youth size and adjustable), and I don't see her as a 5-year old girl wanting a 'blood and spider' bike helmet. She already doesn't like bugs (she takes after her mommy) and is a fairly girly-girl. Nick took it back and exchanged it for the purple one and Ellie doesn't seem to care--- she just likes her new helmet. Am I bad for wanting to exchange it? Or should I have just let her keep the one she picked out? On a side not, I did let her wear socks that didn't match her outfit to day-care because she really wanted to--- so I do let her make some decisions.

5. Still no baby. Nick really wanted the baby to share his birthday. I was hoping she would have her own birthday, but I WAS/am ready for her to arrive so I would have compromised. Oh well. Maybe next week.