Blurbs from a Bean Counter: Someone is in the double digits!

Guess who is 10 years old now (As of Wednesday)?!!? My favorite little Mentee in the world, Adrielle is of course!!! And since I was in Ashland on Wednesday we got to celebrate Thursday evening together and we had a good time as always!!

I picked Adrielle up (after a very busy day of work, exercise, baking, errands, etc.) from her brother's baseball game and we were off!! I knew exactly where to take her, to the Tropical Smoothie Cafe on Chinoe. Michael and I went there last Saturday, and now I'm craving fruit smoothies like CRAZAY! They are soooo yummy and delish and summery, I just can't resist.

You know what I learned as we walked into the smoothie shop? In her 10 years of life, Adrielle apparently had NEVER had a smoothie before. Man was she in for some yummyness in her tummyness! I asked her about her fav fruits and we decided to go with (we split cause their regular smoothies are enough to feed a small city) the something with the words "Sunset" in it. The smoothie had mango, strawberry, pineapple, and orange in it. OH goodness, it was GOOD. I devoured my portion instantly. Adrielle loved her's too but she is more of a "I'm gonna sip this slowly and enjoy it kinda girl". It literally took her like 30 minutes longer than me to finish her smoothie!! I felt like an oinky!

As we slurped our smoothies outside I gave Adrielle her gift. (she had asked for it so I knew she wanted to)

I believe Adrielle is down with Beiber Fever

She opened it and instantly said, I love you so much right now. This smoothie is so good and this movie is awesome, I can't wait to go home and watch it with my sister!! I was so happy that she liked it. She kept telling me how much she loved me as she slurped her drink, and it felt right. A year ago it was kind of awkward on her birthday, I had been her mentor for a couple months and I wasn't really knowledgeable on things she wanted yet. But today we were so comfortable with each other. We chatted, laughed, and even met some 3 and 5 year old girls enjoying smoothies with their daddy.

On the ride home we danced and sang to some Britney Spears, it was fun. I hope one day I can dance and sing in the car with my kids and they won't be embarrassed of me, although I'm sure they will be! After celebrating I dropped her at home and left her with some cake balls I made.

Ok, ok. I was going to try and make her cake pops (made famous by Bakerella) BUT I failed at that and then ran out of time and patience and just ended up making them into cake balls. Same thing, just without a stick. She was thrilled to have them. Her mother, another story, not too keen about the sugar. But hey, a girl needs a good sugary snack to celebrate her birthday and I did fill her up with some lovely blended fruit before I gave her the cake balls! But that's about it!! here's some of the process of making my failed cake pops!