<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Natalie's birthday festivities have finally wound down today after starting the day before her actual birthday.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">It was like Oprah's birthday weekend. Except Natalie turned five not fifty.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">This all started when I told Natalie she could play hookie from day camp on Friday.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Missing camp is not something she's interested in.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Which is a good thing. Believe me.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Promised her she'd have afternoon tea with her good friend.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">It was my plan to take her to see Miley Cyrus since she's been bitten by the Hannah Montana bug thanks to a classmate of hers.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">But I didn't tell her. It was supposed to be a surprise.
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">The day should have started with us at the Miley Cyrus GMA concert in Bryant Park but when I woke up early I saw <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=NwbZnJgnRDk">this crowd</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Common sense said… stay away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">So instead she woke up and watched it on the living room TV as she ate breakfast.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Not a birthday breakfast. Just a plain old ordinary breakfast.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Then I went to work. Had to. And then ran late.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">So her dad brought her to her surprise lunch with both of her grandmothers and an uncle!
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">But he forgot to comb or brush her hair. Oh my!
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">We sang Happy Birthday for the first time. She declared she was now six.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Nat's going through a marshmallow stage so the campfire cupcake from Big Daddy's was a big hit.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Then back to the house to comb her hair and then take her to American Girl Place for afternoon tea.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">The girls did a race to see who could drink their pink lemonade faster. Very lady like I think.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">And then they made plans to have a play date next weekend.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">The next morning Luke and Nat headed off to gardening class and then visited my grandmother.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Soon after we were on the road to Montauk and enjoying birthday cake ice cream and Pez on her real birthday!
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">And today, her camp counselor helped celebrate her birthday again with the 20 girls in her group.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Look at the fun birthday hat they gave her.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Happy Birthday Natalie. Savvy Mommy started all because of you!</span>