Mostly a birthday and Frozen is ridiculous

I'm wracking my brain trying to think what we did this last week. I felt like I was busy, but apparently not with important or interesting things. Except Mira's birthday. She turned 3 on Friday! We didn't have a party for her or anything, since we already celebrated with family and she doesn't really have friends.  It was pretty cute Friday morning, though.  She woke up and Steve got her some breakfast while I tried to sleep a little bit longer.  Neither of them remembered it was her birthday.  Then Emilia woke up right before Steve left for work.  I didn't hear her, but she must have told Mira, "It's your birthday, Mira! You're three today!"  Because then Mira came running out of her room and I hear her yell, "I'm phree, Daddy! I'm phree, I'm phree!" To which Steve responds, "You're free? That's great, sweetie." And he goes back to packing his lunch.  She tries to correct him, but she's not getting anywhere, so I finally go out and say, "Steve, she's not 'free,' she's 'three.'"  "Oh!" he says. "That's right! It's your birthday Mira.  Happy Birthday!"

I asked Mira what she wanted to do for her birthday, and out of all the choices, she wanted to go to ToysRUs to see if we could find an Elsa doll.  If you don't have little girls, you may not know what a freakish phenomenon this show is, but EVERY little girl in America stinking LOVES Elsa from Disney's Frozen.  It's ridiculous. Silly even.  Every adult I talk to is like, "Why Elsa?  She's not even the nice one." I happen to think both girls are a little messed up and I blame terrible parenting via Disney's writing team, but that's another story altogether.

Apparently Disney had no idea the movie (or character) was going to be popular because they have grossly under-supplied the demand.  You cannot find an Elsa doll ANYWHERE. I have been looking for at least a month for anything Elsa and have been completely unsuccessful. I found them on Amazon, but everything on there is around three times the retail price.  I don't care how much my kid wants a toy, I am not paying three times retail.

The lady at ToysRUs told me that they get shipments on Fridays, so they occasionally will have Frozen toys before noon on Fridays.  Mira's birthday was on Friday, so we headed over around 10:30.  They had one Elsa item.  It was a wig.  Woot.

We went back out to the car and I called 6 different stores to see if they had anything Elsa and they all told me no.  One went so far to tell me that they had a shipping problem and wouldn't have more until the end of May.  I then called my mom to see if she could find anything online and I could drive to pick it up. I ended up driving over to Grandma and Grandpa Watts' house to look on the computer, too.  When I did, Amazon actually had an Elsa Barbie-size doll for only $16.99.  When I put it in my cart, there were 12 left.  At the same time, my mom found ONE Walmart in all of the Walmarts in Salt Lake and Utah county that had a single Elsa item in stock. It was a 6-pack of all the characters in the Polly-Pocket size for $25. I took maybe 5 minutes to decide which to get and by that time, ALL 12 of the dolls on Amazon were gone. I couldn't purchase the 6-pack from Walmart either, it told me they were sold out.  Luckily my mom had put it in her cart and was still able to purchase them or Mira would have been without a present for her birthday.  It is craziness!

Below is a picture of the girls with their new Frozen toys.  I have no idea why Bubby is making that face.

Daddy playing Frozen with the girls.

Earlier in the week, I took the girls to the park because it was beautiful! Like 62 degrees.  In March!

Mira is getting really brave, going down slides by herself.

These spin-y things are SO much fun! Like a roller coaster ride that doesn't move from that spot.

Emilia is getting brave, too.  She was climbing all over.

Bubs didn't have a nap the day we went to the park.  Steve needed to mow the lawn and I ran to grab some dinner.  When I got back, I couldn't find Mira.  She wasn't playing outside with Emilia and when I called for her inside, there was no answer.  We finally found her on the floor of our bedroom like this:

For her birthday, Nana Frohlich made Mira a frozen dress that turned out so cute (it has a see-through cape and everything).  Of course, Mira can't have an Elsa dress and not Emilia, so Nana was nice enough to make Emilia one, too.  Such a loving Nana they have.

Saturday, we tried to put up shutters.  It was so unsuccessful! One shutter now has three different sets of drill holes in it and will probably need a 4th before we get these stupid things hung.  So frustrating! Guess we'll try again next week.