Bingo

Gillian got a Fozen Bingo game for her birthday this year. All day today she wanted to play it. Finally after bath, I said we could play. She found Daddy and asked him to join us. When she came back, she said "Good news! There will be four of us!" We played. Gillian was so excited any time she added a new marker to her board. Daddy and I called "Bingo!" at the same time and won the game. We let John and Gillian continue to play. Gillian won. She stood up and said to John, "I win! I guess you're not so smart afterall!" 

Survey says...

At dinner tonight, Gillian asked John and I, "Who likes Harry Potter?" John raised his hand. And I said "I do!" She looked at me and said "You gotta raise your hand." So I raised my hand. Then she asked "Who likes Frozen?" Gillian and I both raised our hands. She looked at me and said "You can't like both." I said "Yes I can." She said "Nope. My game. My rules." She wasn't happy that I liked both but she quickly moved to something else. 

Lip Sync

We taught John about lip syncing the other day. We showed him some videos of Lip Sync Battle. His favorite was the Rock "singing" Taylor Swift.

I was able to get John to lip sync to "In Summer" from Frozen. He cracks me up. 

Frozen by Gillian

Gillian "read" Frozen to me tonight. This isn't her first time, but she was hilarious tonight. Here is Gillian's version of Frozen:

There were two sisters in Arendelle, Anna and Elsa. Elsa makes it snow. And they made an Olaf! But Elsa made Anna shiver! (And she folded her arms and shook). Then the parents ran to get them. And then Anna knocked on the door and say "Do you wanna build a snowman?" Elsa didn't come to the door. And Anna say "It doesn't have to be a snowman!" Then Anna meets Prince Hans of the Seven-aisles (that's how she said it). Him's evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. And Elsa holds something with no gloves! Then Elsa becomes the queen. Anna and Prince Hans get engaged. Elsa says "NO!" Then she shoots ice and makes spikes. But then she runs away. She goes up to the mountain. Let it go! Let it go! Anna goes to find Elsa and her finds a man covered in snow. It's...Mommy, what's his name again? Right, it was Kristoff. Anna says you are taking me to to the North Mountain! Then the sled falls. And they meet Olaf. Olaf says "No yellow snow!" Olaf likes summer. In Summer!!! Then they see the ice castle. Anna sees Elsa. Let it go! But then Elsa shoots Anna with ice. The big snowman runs after them and says "Get out!" Anna cuts the line and they fall on a pillow. The boy says "Your hair! It's white!" They see the trolls. And Anna says we need Prince Hans. But him's doesn't help. Him's is evil. He pours water on the fire! Elsa escaped! Anna saved Elsa. Elsa unfreeze Anna. All the snow goes away. And Olaf got a flurry! Anna and the boy were ice skating! 

I love Gillian's version!

Elsa

For those who don't know, Elsa is one of the princesses from the movie Frozen. Frozen merchandise is very hard to find. I was lucky and found a plush Elsa for Gillian's birthday. Gillian loves her Elsa doll. Today Daddy picked up Gillian from school, he went inside and got all of her stuff and then went back outside to get Gillian from the playground. She came running to him. He handed her the Elsa doll. She then called all of her friends over. All the girls were excited to see the doll. Gillian said "I hold it up so everyone could see." And she held the doll up over her head. The girls all had something to say about the doll. Dorlisa said "I like her slippers!" I wasn't there, but I envision it much like this:

Olaf in summer party

Gillian, like every other little girl, is obsessed with Frozen. She loves Elsa and Anna and I just knew she would want a Frozen themed birthday party. I found a cookie cutter for Olaf and planned her entire party around Olaf. I made it an Olaf in summer party. For those who don't know, Olaf is a snowman and he dreams of being able to play in summer. 

Gillian's party was today. Just minutes before everyone was due to arrive it started to rain. So we quickly had to change our plans. We were going to do games outside, but we had to move them inside. Luckily, Daddy had set up a tent on the deck, so we started with decorating some princess crowns and wands. Every little girl needs a crown and we needed wands to make sure that Olaf wouldn't melt! The girls were very determined and made some beautiful crowns. 

Our first game was pin the sunglasses on Olaf. This was fun. The girls really couldn't see with the blindfold on and had a hard time placing the glasses correctly. You will see that there are two that are pretty close.  Well we had one cheater and one little girl refused to put the blindfold on. Personally my favorite is the one in Olaf's hand. 

We then piled up some cups and the kids threw beach balls to knock them down. This was a huge hit. The girls loved it. They all went two times!

After the game, we had three of the girls go an decorate crowns (they were late and didn't get to decorate with the other girls). Meanwhile, Gillian took her other friends downstairs to play. If it wasn't raining, we would have done another game. But we had to make do. The girls got to play for a little bit. And then I told them it was time for pizza. They ran upstairs. All the girls ate very well. 

After pizza, it was time for cupcakes!

The cupcakes were a huge hit, along with some fancy 4 cookies!

Once everyone was done with dessert, it was time to bust open the piñata. The rain had stopped by this time. And we were able to go outside. The girls were patient and waited for their turn to pull a string. They didn't fight over the candy and each took a small amount. Since the rain was gone, the kids were able to play on the playground. They played nicely for awhile. Slowly the girls started to leave until there was three girls left plus Gillian. They played so nicely together, we didn't realize that it had gotten so late. The last girl left around 3! I see that as a sign of a good party. 

After everyone left, Gillian opened her gifts. She is a lucky girl and received a lot of nice things. Daddy asked her "What was your favorite part of the party?" She answered honestly "The presents!" 

In the hall

Gillian wanted to watch Frozen again this weekend. We have been singing the songs ever since. Tonight at dinner, we were listening to Pandora and "Do you want to build a snowman?" came on. The kids faces lit up and they sang along.  It came to the line "Do you want to build a snowman? Or ride our bikes around the halls?" Gillian said "That's bad. You have to ride the bikes outside. Not in the hall!"

Frozen

Over Christmas break, John and Gillian went to see Frozen with Aunt Betty and Grandma. Gillian loved going to the movie. I stopped at the bookstore tonight to get John and Daddy a new book. While I was there I bought Gillian a Frozen book. 

Before bedtime tonight I gave Gillian the book. She said "I know this! I see the movie!" I read her the story. We were about two pages in and she stopped me. "Elsa and Anna are sisters." I read a little more and she said "Look! Her not wearing her gloves. Then everything turn to ice!" Again I read a few pages and she says "What's the moose's name?"  I am so glad that I bought this book. I had a great time reading it with my Beans tonight.