To Quinn, and perhaps to many other children, the essential element of a birthday party is - cake! Here is the cake from her birthday party at school at the end of October, right before we left Nicaragua.
Nicaraguan birthday parties are also pretty much required to have a piñata. Quinn is whacking away at it.
Maya came to the party, too!
The second fourth birthday party was at Quinn's grandparents' house in Fresno, less than a week before her actual birthday, and just a few days before the end of our time in California. It also featured:
a cake ( a *strawberry* cake -- Quinn was a little fixated on that this year)...
piñata...
and friends!
On Quinn's actual birthday, in the middle of the week, we were staying with my Aunt Leslie in Maryland, and she was kind enough to make the birthday girl a strawberry cake. The frosting was just pink as opposed to artificial strawberry flavor. I felt it was a decided improvement, and Quinn did not know the difference.
I did not get any photos of the cake, but here is Quinn with the brown-haired, blue-eyed American Girl doll that Aunt Leslie gave her.
And, for the fourth and final party, Quinn's Aunt Holly took the strawberry theme and ran with it:
These cupcakes were just pink with a few real strawberries on top, and again, Quinn did not seem to know the difference.
She loved celebrating with her cousins.
Having been so thoroughly feted, we had to warn her that she would not be getting nearly as many presents for Christmas!
