Birthday Girl Yang Kedua (or Number 2)

Now everyone in the household has had a 2008 birthday.   WHEW!  If we find any more reasons to take days off from school, someone will call the law on us.  I remember when the guy from the school board came to hound us for having a combo of 6 tardies/absences.  If he were here now, he'd be like that Principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off hanging out in our bushes with a court order.  But we are in a different place now and so I guess the guys at the District Office on the Square have to find other things to do :-P !!

Of course Barbie had to be represented.  Bethany said last year her b-day was a let-down because everyone who came to her party gave a Barbie doll.  I remember getting model cars during gift exchanges at school and wondering, "Who likes models?  YUCK!"  So I know how she felt.  But still ... an 8-year-old girl?  Barbie has to make the party.
Technically these are "Barbies" too in the way that all soft drinks in KY are "Cokes".  (As in this conversation, "Hey, you want a Coke?"  "Sure."  "What kind?"  "A Big Red.")  All spindly-leg, plastic dolls are Barbies to me.  But these special Barbies are Troy and Gabriella.  If you don't know who they are based on that description, you are officially out of it and beyond help.  Just don't bother.
The big deal was a bike with fringy things on the handlebars.  Awesome.
Then we went bowling.  And then on to see Bolt.  Yeah a pretty big day.  Everyone was worn out and so we are actually waiting on the cake and ice cream for tomorrow, can you believe that?!?