Our gift to Lillian, for her birthday, was to give her a day when parents say "Yes" to everything. We had no idea how it would play out, but thought that it was worth experimenting with.
I can sum up the day in four words:
simple pleasures, complicated LEGOs.
She
had chocolate cake for breakfast, second breakfast, and lunch (and sushi for dinner). She
took a warm bath, in the dark, with glowsticks in the tub, at 10am. We
watched Inside Out (her 5th time watching it) and an episode of
MasterChef Junior (a reality show where 8 to 13 year-olds participate in
a cooking competition). We went swimming and ended up relaxing in a
jacuzzi. She asked for a huge LEGO Millennium Falcon set and worked on
it, on her own, for five hours, while humming the birthday song to
herself. There was also some snuggling, some tossing of balloons, some
playing with Russian nesting dolls, and walking around most of the day
in only her underwear.
