Qatar Adventures with the O's

Happy 4th Birthday Avery!!

Since Papa had to leave before Avery's actual birthday, she got to open a couple of gifts early. She LOVED the Barbies!!

We had to wake up Avery on her birthday and she was dead asleep. :)

At what age do we grow out of sleeping like this? Ha!

Happy Birthday Sleeping Beauty!

We bought Avery this cool Plasma car that she loves to play with at our friend's house. She loves to drive it all around the house.

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Avery was lucky to have a gift from Nana delivered by Papa just in time for her birthday!

PONIES! I love PONIES!!

After school, Avery played at the park with her friend Tillie and her other new horse from Nana.

That evening, Avery got to open her gifts from Bobby and I. She absolutely loves them!

Fairies and Unicorns!

What could this be??

A house for the fairies!

After assembly, it is super cute! She loves it!

The final gift of the night was a necklace from Nana that Avery found when she opened the card. What a fun surprise!

Avery's birthday party was the following day. She shared a Princess and Pirate party with her friend Lilly whose 5th birthday is 2 days after Avery's. We had the party at the soccer field in the compound complete with bounce houses and all sorts of "princess" activities. We used all the older kids in the compound to run the activities. Natalie made all the signs for the party. She did a fantastic job with the few supplies we were able to find here.

The Princess in the "coach" on the way to the party

Princess Avery and Princess Lilly (the birthday girls)

Natalie did a great job on the posters!

Princesses Tillie and Avery

Avery wanted "face painting" all over her body

Chase and George manning the boys tattoo station

Chase helping Wassim with a tattoo

Pirate Vittorio

Avery painting her friend Ellen's nails

Avery painting my nails

Natalie did a great job face painting all day

no words to describe this one!

Millie and Minnie helped with the girl tattoos

Sand art

Check out this cake I made for Avery (with some tutoring from Esther)

Family shot (minus Natalie who was out in the crowd singing)

Make a wish!

Yummy cake with Chiara, Anastasia, Vittorio, and Ellen (all friends from school)

Cute gifts from Tillie

AND NOW.....

Avery's friend Nora wasn't able to come to the party because she had a cousin's birthday party to go to at the same time. We received a call at the end of the party saying someone wanted to deliver a gift to Avery from Sheikha Nora (the granddaughter of the Emir). I met them at the compound gate and was shocked to see the size of the box.

What could this be???

A little help from Natalie and Chase

We were all shocked at the enormity and generosity of this gift! Avery was so excited!

WHAT?!!!

Needless to say, Avery was thrilled with this gift from her friend

Assembly began immediately

After a night of charging the battery, here she is!!

Many thanks to Nora for this awesome gift! Avery is so happy!

We went back to the Souq Waqif to show Papa around. We also picked up Nicole, Buddy's wife who is visiting here. When we arrived in the parking lot, we saw all the camels being ridden back into their spot after their morning walk along the waterfront.

After the camels, we headed over to the falcon souq. We got really lucky and a man let us hold one of the falcons.

The Falcon man

We also walked around and found the arabian horses that belong to the Emir. They were very calm and sweet. One of the horse keepers was very nice and told us all about each horse and let us sit in the relaxing area of the horse corral. It was cool.