Ryah's Birthday Happenings

I can't believe Ry is already 4...where has the time gone. She is such a sweetheart and is the best big sister. Keslee is lost when Ryah is not around. It has taken Kes the last 8 months getting used to Nursery by herself. She wants Ryah to come back to class with her. They are best buds and do everything together.

Ryah is quite the imaginative child. She planned her birthday and told me exactly what she wanted to do, she even initated the conversation. First, a birthday fairy comes and decorates the house while she is sleeping...not sure where she got that idea. Here is how the rest of the conversation went:

Ryah: For lunch I want to go to Benihana's because I filled out the birthday card thing that the mailman gave me so I can eat there. (little did she know it wasn't for a birthday meal, it was for a souvenir cup) Then I want to go to the "Bagoon." Then I want to go eat pepperoni pizza at Grandma Kay's and have a birthday cake with pink frosting and strawberries on the side.
 
Me: Really, Ry...you want to do all that on your birthday?

Ryah: Yeah, dad said I can do whatever I wanted.

That statement has come back to haunt Jared a time or two. The thing with Ry is she does not forget anything. She remembers the smallest details that I don't even recall. Lucky for Jared's mom, she stepped right up and accepted the task of a pink birthday cake with strawberries on the side and did a fabulous job. I am not a baker...at least of cakes. Ry would have had a pan cake with frosting on the top and nothing on the sides.

For her birthday she wanted a barbie doll house and a little blue piano to go in the house. She got the house, but not the piano. That little blue piano she saw at someone's house and it was 8 years old...no luck finding it.

Fun Facts about Ry:
-Loves shopping...it is out of control and I'm not sure where she got it from. You would think I took her every day or something by the way she talks. Shopping is torture with her.
-Loves the color pink
-Likes to go on bike rides
-Loves swimming
-Likes to be in charge. Luckily Keslee likes that about Ryah and listens to almost everything she has her do. The other day they were playing gymnastics and Ryah was the teacher. Keslee kept getting up and Ryah said, "Keslee sit down and put some glue on that bum." I have no idea where she heard that, it was so funny.
-She says funny things...Ryah yelled at Jett while he was outside and said, “What the heck, get back in here, I hear a coyote.” She woke up crying one morning and when I went in the room she asked me why I took her to the other doctor because his lawn mower man runned over her big toe and now it hurt.
-Loves learning and singing...she will ask me on occassion, "So what are we learning today?"

Here are some pictures of her day: