The 4-year party

Emma, you decided that your theme this year was red, yellow, and orange.  Admittedly we didn't do much decorating and your foods weren't color-themed.  However it was still good food: a southern BBQ of pulled pork, cole slaw, sweet potato fries, macaroni and cheese, and apple sauce.

You were really funny opening gifts.  You made sure to find the cards first.  There was one gift that you pulled a piece of tissue paper out first.  You pulled your hand back as if it had been smacked and put the tissue paper back and looked again for the card.  You were in awe of each gift you opened and you wanted to play with each immediately after you opened them.  You got lots of clothes (you needed pajamas and pants) and some cars, puzzles, play doh, some other art supplies, and some books.  Your favorites seem to be the princess dolls with the snap on dresses (that you requested), the music toy Jeremy got you, and the GIANT box of art things -- over 1000 pieces -- from Uncle Denny and Aunt Marilyn.  Stella liked all your gifts too.  She walked around for 15 minutes or so going, "Whoa!!!"  You loved the princess figures with snap-on dresses that you asked for.  Uncle Jeremy won with the gifts again though, I believe.  What he got you is hard to describe.  He has an app on his phone that you love to play that has all different instruments on it.  He found a mini-orchestra with 13 different instruments that you can pull out and make different arrangements of and it plays the songs with just those instruments.  It tells you which belong to what family, which are accompaniment versus melody instruments.  It's really cool.  You and Spencer played that for a while.

You had fun with Spencer and TJ and James and Christopher too.  It was really great having family and friends together for the party.

The gift from Uncle Jeremy