For Selah's birthday this year, she wanted a slumber party. (Actually, she wanted a roller skating party in the dome for all her friends and family, complete with disco balls, strobe lighting, in-line skates with pom-poms, "... and Michael Jackson songs ALL DAY LONG that we can dance to. Then, I want all my friends to spend the night and we'll stay up all night and eat a ridiculous mountain of candy." We compromised and settled on a slumber party.)
Five of the giggliest-greatest-girls arrived around four on Saturday afternoon. Each girl got a party bag filled with bubble gum, a headband, a colorful scrubby pom-pom puff for the shower, glitter nail polish, old maid playing cards, honking noisemakers, and ribbon wands. They overtook Selah's closet and played dress-up, got into clay-craft and mask painting, rocked the over-sized teeter totter with two gigglers on each side, punctured a hole in our dome wall play-fighting with bamboo swords, squealed, blew huge bubbles, and ate up a storm.
Selah requested a "tiered" birthday chocolate + pudding cake with real whipped cream and blueberries. She also requested NO singing of the Happy Birthday song as she generally feels too overwhelmed and embarrassed when she is sung to. She said she wanted a lot of candles and all of her wishes to come true but PLEASE! NO SONG!
After pizza, garden burgers, chips, huge wads of bubble gum, big chocolate cake faces, and a four forgotten tooth brushes, they piled into a huddle around a couple of fun-to-watch movies, and fell asleep peacefully until the sun came up at 6 a.m. Lots of tiny and feet and giggles and screeching came up with the sunlight. Pancakes and more costumes play finished out their stay, and then Papa took all the girls home.
I would venture to say this was Selah's most fun birthday ever! She's exhausted now, and waiting for more birthday cake. We can't believe it's been nine years since she graced our lives with her ever-expanding heart and kindness, silliness and greatness. We are forever thankful for her, and our love for her only deepens with each year she sprouts up a few more happy inches.
Happy Birthday Selah Rain! We love you!!
