MissE turns 6!

We had a very special surprise for Eloise on her 6^th birthday: Disneyland!  Our flight itinerary took us through Los Angeles anyway so we thought we would take the opportunity to stop and celebrate her birthday in a BIG way.

Surprise!

Baskin Robbin's Chocolate Chip ice cream cake

On our last full day, we had an early birthday celebration for her with family.  She wore her “birthday” dress for dinner and we had an ice cream cake at Yi-mah’s.  After singing Happy Birthday, she opened presents.  I brought with us her ‘Ears’ from our last visit, Dr Seuss’ Happy Birthday to You! Book (for the characters princesses to sign) and wrote the below sign (I spent a few days prior telling her to practice her reading although I forgot about her not being able to read cursive so she needed a bit of help).  

Here was her reaction:

Eloise’s Birthday Surprise (video)

If you don’t want to click to watch (it’s good, I swear! iMovie is so much fun now), here are the stills.

The Day before Her Birthday

Well, it was time to say goodbye but we were Disney bound!  Our short flight was non-eventful other than the usual departing America drama (self-induced).  My wonderful, awesome cousin picked up us and all of our luggage up from LAX with a survival pack (snacks for the kids, water and coffee for us (not them!) and drove us to our Disney home (it’s not much but great for the value).

Disney-bound selfies

Disney or Bust!

On a rainy evening, we walked across the road (yes, our Disney home is great for that) and spent the evening at Downtown Disney.  We had a pre-birthday celebration at The Rainforest Café; Eloise is well-taught in telling our servers it’s her birthday.  Read: she had a lot of cake.

The Hulk at Lego Store Downtown Disney

Getting WILD at Rainforest Cafe

Many cakes...

After mapping out our day, we had an early night for our big day tomorrow…