Aya's Half Birthday

Alice turned 2 1/2 on February 25th and though I never told her this, she sensed it and felt the need to celebrate (since we had failed so miserably). Yesterday, we went to the dollar store so she could spend her $5 that Memaw sent her. She was thrilled and had a hard time picking just five things. To my confusion, one of those five things was a roll of wrapping paper. Albeit, it did have sesame street characters on it, but still, wrapping paper? When we got home, she put everything down so she could open her wrapping paper. She unrolled the whole thing and started setting the other toys on top of it. I finally realized she picked out the wrapping paper so she could wrap her toys! We wrapped them up and she carried them around in a bag most of the afternoon. I asked her once what was in the packages and she said, "sh! secret!," which she picked up when we were trying to explain that she shouldn't tell people what she got them for Christmas. I also asked her when she was going to open up her presents and she said that she was going to wait for daddy to come home. Well, she did wait for hours, which I was very impressed with, but we didn't make it until dad got home. As she was opening up her presents, she told me it was "Aya birday" and that I should put up the "birday sign." We didn't put up the sign, but I did sing her happy birthday. It was really funny to watch her open the presents because she got so excited about each gift, acting like she had no idea what was in the package. Or maybe she really didn't remember?