Lillie's Circus Celebration Recap

This year rather than have a big birthday party to celebrate Lillie's second birthday, Tori
suggested that Lillie might enjoy a trip to the circus. So we decided to have a family dinner on Lillie's actual birthday and then celebrate with a special trip to the circus the next week! Lillie's special day began with the traditional Roden doughnut breakfast and a special poster made by Daddy. And we also gave our Lillie a lily of her own! Even though she wouldn't eat her doughnut, ( she just stroked it like it was a fuzzy kitty), she was so excited that the focus was all on her!





After a day eating in at Chick-Fil-A, (a real treat for us) and an outing at Brilliant Sky picking out a birthday treat(a wooden apple pie set for our Lilie Pie), she was ready to come home for a quick nap and a big birthday dinner! I can't say Lillie ate
much dinner, but I've never seen a child light up anymore over a birthday cake!
After cake, she was more than ready for presents, and the hit of the evening was from Patti-Grams and Aunt Tori, the playmobil circus set! The perfect gift to get us ready for her big circus celebration!

In addition to playing with our playmobil, we spent the week getting ready for the circus by
reading books about the circus, working circus puzzles, and even watching a special Mr. Rogers about the circus. We also had a circus dress up day and a special showing of Dumbo, which has since become one of Lillie's favorites (she has me read the book almost every night)! Needless to say, by the time the day arrived, our crew was more than ready!




















Our trip to the circus could not have been more perfect! After a fantastic dinner at Demos' the whole family went to Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, which was a first for four of the five kids in our family! Never have the kids had more fun or had more
grateful attitudes than they did at the circus - which made
the whole experience even more fun! Lillie truly enjoyed every site, every sound, and every taste. She was completely mesmerized and engaged
throughout the entire show, even though it didn't even though it lasted until
nearly 10 p.m.! From the snocones to the clowns to the cotton candy and the elephants, Lillie Roden enjoyed it all! She tasted everyone's snack and wound up with everyone's souvenir before the night was over. With her sweetness and charm, she conned every adult into buying her either a snack or souvenir! Lillie beams from the inside out, and I've adopted a quote Sophie said about her, "she can make a bad day good." And as far as our circus outing went, she made a great night, spectacular! Our circus adventure could not have been a better celebration of our precious Lillie!

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