Continuing with the Fancy

I'll just pick up where I left off...this (above) is how Bella went to bed the night of her birthday party. She put on as many of her new birthday gifts as she could to wear to bed.
Below is the next night. Notice a pattern? She likes those accessories!
We had planned to go to the zoo as family (per tradition) on her actual birthday, but Lucy wasn't feeling well enough. We weren't about to leave her behind, so we did what we could to make the day fun anyway.
We started at the doughnut shop- yum! Then we walked over to a nail salon that has special pedicure chairs for little girls. We left with 20 purple toes! Bella's big toes even had a special Halloween design on them.

Poor Luc! She did liven up quite a bit after a while and decided to get her toes done too!
The FIVE year old's toes:

And sweet little 2 year old toes:

While Lucy was having a much needed long afternoon nap, Bella and I baked her cake. Then she got to decorate it. She did not take the role of decorating lightly! I think Fancy Nancy would be proud.

After Bella's soccer practice that evening, she chose to eat at "Tin Stars," her favorite restaurant. Finally, Bella got to open her gifts. Brian thought to get a little something for Lucy too. Good idea, Daddy!
Bella's main gift from our family was (so shocking, I know) a Fancy Nancy doll. I think she liked it! :)

Happy Birthday to our wonderful, sweet, beautiful, fancy 5 year old!

Fancy Five!

Bella loves Fancy Nancy books, so we decided to have a "fancy" birthday party. Fancy Nancy likes to speak in French, say things like "ooh la la", and dress up in all kinds of fancy accessories. I had help from former French teacher Momo with making the little signs!
Did you know that the Eiffel Tower has a big flower poof, and giant butterflies on it?
We had more kids than ever her birthday party since she invited all of the girls from her class and all of the girls on her soccer team. Most of those girls are Fancy Nancy fans too, and some even came dressed like Nancy! For those that wanted to add to their fanciness, we had the "Get Fancy" table.

We wouldn't dare leave out Bella's boy friends (I'll keep those two words separate for Brian's sake), so we had some fancy options for them too. Everett was quite the willing participant!
And so were Bella's cousins Tyler and Noah. They even wore the stick on mustaches while eating ice cream...talent!
Bella's cousins Jack and Andrew even came a little fancy, which I'm sure was completely their idea. :) I loved it!
Bella's cousins Taylor and Bailey painted the girls' fingernails in sparkly polish and offered stick on earrings. What would we do without these older, helpful cousins?
Lucy was showing me her nails! :)
Papa even came up with a fancy, firework-like candle for Bella's cake. She really was more impressed with that than she looks in this picture!
And, wow, she is growing up!