T+777 Torie's 5!

 Happy Birthday to Torie!  We celebrated her birthday with a small family party, but we missed having Uncle Shaun here.  He'll be here tomorrow, though.                                                Torie and I were talking about her birthday a while ago.  I asked her what she wanted to do, and she said she wanted " a purple party.  With a purple cake.  And ice cream inna cone."  Tuesday we went to pick out her cake.  She told the baker she wanted "a purple cake.  With flowers."  I asked her what kind of flowers and she told me "the frosting ones."  (Yes, another forehead slap.)   The she said, "And I wanna blue one and a pink one and a orange one and a yellow one with green leaves."  I picked it up earlier today, and it was just, uhm, beautiful.  She loved it.  It was exactly what she wanted!                        

 She got a Jessie doll from her Mommy and Ryker, and it was by far her favorite present.  She loves "Yessie."  She couldn't get it out of the box fast enough!      

Torie has had her hearing aids for about 3 weeks now and she does excellent with them.  Just like her glasses, she doesn't take them out, and wants them in as soon as she get up.  We really hoped that was how she'd do.  It's been much easier than we thought.  She's just that good! 

Thanks as always for checking in.  I sometimes feel bad that I don't get this updated more often.  But more frequent updates generally means things aren't going so great.  So I don't feel that bad!  She is excellent!