Birthday Party!

Every day this week we woke up to Emma coming in to our room asking "is my party today?" "No, Emma it's not!" Then we would count the days...okay she got it - at least that's what we thought until the next morning - then we'd do it all over again.
Okay, so today is the BIG day. She comes running in to our room this morning, "My party is today right?" We finally gave her the answer she had been waiting to hear ALL week long, "Yes! Your party is today - woo-hoo!" We totally built it up for her. She crawls in to bed with us, "Well, aren't you going to wish me a happy birthday?" Seriously - her words not mine. This is funny to us because you see her birthday isn't until July 12th! I started cracking up, "Well, Emma I would wish you a happy birthday but it's NOT your birthday. Remember your birthday is July 12th, I will wish you happy birthday's all day long on your birthday." Her response, "So today is my pretend birthday?" I just went with it! What else could I do - I think this was the only way she was going to get it!
Let's back up a couple of days now to Thursday night...you see her birthday party is at at water park! Perfect, right? Well, you would think...I mean all I would seriously have to worry about is rain and thunder storms right? NOOOOOOOOOOO - oh we get a major storm - microburst people! Power is out EVERYWHERE - we were without power for 18 hours. This storm shuts down the city! Nothing can operate b/c DUH there's no power....including pools! The pool is NOT open and the news is saying it will not be open for a few days! Okay this is the screaming part! I don't watch the news - we never do anymore but we happened to see our water park flash on the news so we were like WTF - we have to watch it. What are we going to do? This is the party my baby girls has been waiting for ALL WEEK LONG! Seriously is this happening. Meanwhile I tried to get in touch with the pool all day long on Friday...but guess what? No phones either. YES, SCREAM! I am a planner people and this is NOT in my plan. Brian and I sit watching the news - and finally here's our story. They say "ALL city pools will be closed" What? Really? Did they really just say that? Oh but wait you know how the news works - "This just in Emma's water park is the ONLY pool in the city OPEN!" OMG - YES! HUG!
Fast forward - Saturday morning. We are all happy and getting all the party stuff ready. It's going to be a great day. Get to the water park early so we can decorate our tables. I am greeted by the head life guard lady.....with this "We don't have a cake for you" I didn't even know what to say. "What no cake? How am I going to have a birthday party without a cake? Why don't I have a cake?" In my head I am thinking, this is what I get for not having total control. I let go a little and this is what happens. That stupid life guard kept talking and I seriously heard NOTHING she said. I was PISSED. Stupid storm. You see that's why I didn't have a cake, Ben and Jerry's still didn't have power so they couldn't make a cake. I couldn't even tell that lady what I wanted to b/c Emma was at my side and oh she heard there was no cake. Oh the look on her little face. I wanted to rip that whistle off life guard lady's neck and smack her with it. Why is she telling me this 30 minutes before my party. What we don't have phones these days? So I start snapping out on Brian (who knows why - it's just what I do) - Luckily there is a grocery store 5 minutes away from pool - Brian leaves and comes back with an ice cream cake. I remember him saying as he left (while I was huffing and puffing and getting ready to blow whatever down) "Why are you letting something so stupid ruin this party?" He was completely right? Why? It all worked out. It wasn't that big of a deal.
All of Emma's little friends came out to help her celebrate turning 4. It was an amazing day. I am so lucky to have a wonderful friend who just happens to be one of the VERY best photographers ever - capture EVERY detail of the party. The smile on Emma's face was awesome. Not once did I look at her and she wasn't smiling...and that brings us to the HUGS!