BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS WITH MY SPECIAL LITTLE GIRL

I actually cannot believe my baby is now 8 years old!  It only seems like yesterday that I was carrying  Madisyn in my tummy.  But this little love is growing up and it's happening super fast!

Madi turned 8 on the 15th of June and what an amazing weekend we had.  With Madi's birthday on the Saturday, Father's day & Madi's party on the Sunday and my husband, Ashley's birthday on the Monday it was not only go-go-go, it was bloody expensive too!  It's this weekend of the year that has me keeping the local card stores in business.  I must have spent £30 alone on buying them for all 3 occasions from and for all members of the household.  Though Seb assures his sister he picked and bought his card for her himself, which he did not.

So we started the day a little differently than usual.  Ashley has this lovely idea of a 'dream family' routine for Birthdays & Christmas where we all eat breakfast and dress adequately for the celebrations before opening anything.  And we've really done it this way for the whole of the kids lives.  But not this year for Miss Madi.  We ate breakfast in a hurry and then dived straight in with the gifts and cards.  And she was certainly not disappointed.  With a whole new wardrobe, loads of glitzy fun bits and a NEW PHONE (I kid you not... What was we thinking?) she was definitely one bouncy, smiley happy little girlie!

She literally spent the whole day listening to music on her phone, head crowned with her new massive Moshi Monster headphones.  

But Sunday was super fun because we got to party!  It was the first year we'd arranged a disco for one of the kiddies and it was definitely the best way to celebrate.  Lot's of Madi's classmates and family friends arrived dressed to dance and some of the children even arrived with bouquets of flowers for her too.  It was completely adorable.  In total, Madisyn has an AWESOME birthday weekend and poor old dad celebrated his Father's day cleaning up a disco hall after hehe.