More Birthday Celebrating...

The celebrating continued on Cortlyn's real birthday, starting with a huge display of flamingos in our front yard (a tradition started by one of Mac's soccer girls).  Cortlyn was so shocked and confused when she saw them all, it was too funny.  =) And, oddly, she had slept with her stuffed flamingo that previous night, so she's holding it in all of the pictures.  She was very happy to receive her new Twinkle Toes (shoes), a ballerina doll from Maya, and a sing-along cd player.  We also made a trip to Build-A-Bear and Cortlyn was excited to spend the money Papa sent to her for her birthday (Thanks Papa!).--Maya benefitted from that trip as well. =) They were so excited to get Clarice and Rudolph and loved playing and snuggling with them leading up to Christmas. =)  On our way to Build-A-Bear, we had to stop and ride a few of the rides in the mall (the ice cream truck and rocket ship)...