Having her cake...and eating it, too!

Birthdays are always eventful around our house. Tim has made a great effort to be off and spend the day with each of the children on their special day... and we usually do something fun as a family. On Rachel's special day this year - he made her feel like a Princess all day long. He kept telling her that she could certainly decide what we would do - it was her Birthday...sure, you can pick out what you want to wear...it's your birthday. You get the idea. :) So, this year we had lunch at Chuck-E-Cheese with Mamoo and Papoo... and they even brought a cake! We planned to follow that with a movie and then dinner before returning home. This was a big deal that we built up quite a bit - since last year we weren't able to make it to Rachel's birthday movie - as we were taking her to the dentist for a tooth injury from playing too rough! It also meant we didn't get to go to Chick-Fil-A for dinner, but had Chinese food instead so that she could have soup. (Her tooth was knocked loose... there was no chewing for her for quite a while...) Well... the movie didn't start as early as we thought - and we decided to kill time at Target... when Rachel began asking about her Birthday Cake. I told her that we had a cake, but that I didn't make is yet since Mamoo brought her a cake to Chuck-E-Cheese. Well, being the Princess that she is...she decided that she wanted to go home and make her own birthday cake instead of going to the Movies... so that is exactly what we did. Tim then proceeded to ask her what she wanted to do about dinner..."It's your birthday, he said... you can have WHATEVER YOU WANT." (Big mistake...) Rachel replied so very sweetly..."Oh... Ok... I'd like spaghetti." (Daddy was not so very happy...he and Aunt Jamie have the same opinion of spaghetti...) That's when I smiled sweetly and said...maybe with just a tad bit of sarcasm... "It IS her birthday, honey."