Susie – May and 12th Birthday

Susie was busy the month of April with practices getting ready for her Drama Club performance at the beginning of May. She was in the play Bugsy Malone Jr. She had 3 parts, Barber, Trumpet Player and Cigarette Girl. She had 2 dress rehearsals and 3 performances. She did a great job and really enjoyed it. She was all dolled up with lot’s of make-up and her hair fancy. I just have to share this story, she hates me telling it but it is so great… After the first performance I took her out to dinner to celebrate (our whole family came the next night). She wanted to go to a Japanese resturant. Well we sat down and a guy came over to take our orders. There was a little confusion because we couldn’t understand him very well. Well Susie pointed in her menu what she wanted and he said ” no, no, that is children’s menu 12 and younger” to which Susie replied “I am 11!!!” He was so embarrassed, he said, “I so sorry, I so sorry” took our order and quickly left. Well he must have gone into the kitchen and told everyone that there is a girl out there that says she is 11 and she looks like she is 16 because about every 30 seconds or so someone would come out of the kitchen, look around, look at Susie and go back in. This happened at least 8 or 9 times. I started teasing Susie about it when I started noticing what was happening. I’d say “Oh here comes another one checking you out!” She was just starting to sink in her chair, she leaned over and whispered, “I am going to the bathroom to wash this make-up off!” It was pretty funny!

The other big big big thing that has happened to Susie is she turned 12 years old!!! She graduated from Primary and has moved onto Young Women. She was so ready but we are still sad seeing her grow up…

For her birthday I told her she could have a sleepover (she doesn’t get to do it any other time). So she was planning it for weeks. She invited 16 girls, 13 of them came. I honestly didn’t think that many would come, I haven’t even met several of the parents but they still let them come. Kinda makes me wonder… I would never in a million years let my child stay the night at someones house that I have never met! So I was getting worried when so many of them said they were coming, about having that many girls in the house and keeping them all happy and occupied. Jason was really freaking out. He kept saying “16 girls, you invited 16 girls!!!” He wanted to take Becca camping to escape but she got home too late from her field trip. It was funny. But as it turned out they did great, no major issues. Not much sleep as you can imagine but they had fun. Susie had some activities planned: making jewelry, watched her 12 year video we made for her, ate pizza, did gifts, played night games outside, roasted marshmellows and made s’mores, watched a couple of movies and finally fell asleep around 2:30 or so. In the morning they had muffins and pancakes and played water balloon volleyball and regular volleyball and just hung out! It seemed like they had a good time and Susie was happy with the party, that is all that matters…

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