Welbi ‘Round the World

A Very Maui Birthday

This year we are all about observing holidays.  Since Santa brought the girls bunk beds (huge and heavy), we decided to have Christmas the Sunday before we left Kobe.  It was great!  To continue this theme, we decided to have Riley’s birthday early because we fly back to Kobe on her birthday.  It was not ideal, but it saved us $2200 per ticket!

Pretty much I told Riley she could pick the day that she wanted to celebrate her birthday.  So this morning she woke up and decided today was the day that we would celebrate her birthday.  First, I went to the store to get all of the makings for pumpkin pie, which is Riley’s request for a birthday cake.  Once I returned, Riley opened her presents.  Then she decided that we should spend the day at the beach.  Thirty minutes later we were out the door and spent the morning at the beach.

The afternoon we spent at the local mall at Claire’s where Riley got her ears pierced!  I warned it would hurt a little, and she definitely was having second thoughts.  We spent about 30 minutes in Claire’s just shopping.  Then she decided that she wanted the December birth stone.  She sat down on the chair, and she was ready to go.  Just at that moment Tess tried to climb up, so I convinced Tess to wait.  Then two lovely ladies did her ears at the same time.  Boy, did she scream!  I felt bad, but she was so cute.  She was crying and upset for less than a minute.   Meanwhile, Tess runs out of the store and screams, “I don’t want the chair!”  I was laughing so hard that it was hard to console both girls.  I think Tess might be scarred for life, or she might have no memory of it tomorrow.  Who knows, it’s Tess!

All in all, I think Riley had a great birthday.

Here are the photos.

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