Happy Birthday, Elliana!

I can't believe we have celebrated two birthdays with Ellie since she has come to be a part of our family. Ellie's birthday falls on Valentine's Day and this year she actually had a party to attend on her birthday and it wasn't her own! Her friend Aly turned 4 and we celebrated her birthday with her. We had a lot of fun playing with the other little girls and they all seemed to have lots of fun doing their arts and crafts and running around. Of course Ellie took the longest eating and I ended through her cupcake away because she was taking SOOOO long but she didn't seem to mind. Aly is also adopted from China as is one of her older sisters. Her parents had sent their photos and videos taken while in China adopting her sister away to someone who creates adoption videos. So while we were there, we watched the adoption video and it really was amazing the beautiful result. Maybe one of these days I will put our stuff together and look into having a video made. It would be an amazing keepsake for all of us I think.
Then on Sunday, the day after her actual birthday we celebrated Ellie's birthday with a small group of her friends. All of the ones that were able to make it are from our Asian playgroup and she had fun. We did some arts and crafts, played in the basement, had cake and ice cream and of course opened a few gifts! It was a good time had by all I think and here are some pictures of the big event.