- The plan now is to just do a little
mini-celebration at home.
(upbeat music)
("Happy Birthday")
♪ Happy birthday, happy birthday ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
- I think that's enough.
(Raven laughing)
- [Raven] Happy birthday!
Today's your birthday!
You're gonna be four.
You are four.
You're officially four.
And guess what?
- What?
- Got something for ya.
You are the birthday queen today.
It says happy birthday on it.
- And it has pink.
But I need to wear a
beautiful princess dress
for my princess birthday.
- [Raven] You wanna change into a dress?
- Mm-hm.
- [Raven] You like your crown?
It says happy birthday.
And you get to wear it today
'cause you're the birthday
princess, the birthday queen.
The birthday star.
You're four years old.
- I gotta measure myself.
- [Raven] Oh, we have that thing
that we never hung back up.
The last time we measured
you was January of last year.
I have to hang it back up.
You're much taller now.
- I'm all the way to four.
- [Raven] Yeah, here let me
help you with your crown.
How does it feel to be four years old?
And today is your birthday, wow.
I took the liberty of
picking something out.
Would you like to try it on?
This dress kinda has like butterflies,
kinda looks like a mix between
butterflies and flowers.
So I thought it was fitting.
And you never wore it.
- I gotta get my princess gloves
so I can be a real princess.
- Pink, blue, and purple,
those are the colors you asked for
for your birthday theme, remember?
Said you like pink, blue, and purple,
and that's also why I
did your hair like this.
With the pink, blue,
and purple butterflies.
Wow, the birthday princess, beautiful!
You got gloves and everything?
You're fancy.
Look at the four-year-old
birthday princess.
Gimme a twirl.
You're not gonna wear the
shoes to complete your look?
Is there another pair of
shoes you wanna wear instead?
There we go, now we got the
final look with the shoes.
These are her more comfortable shoes.
Let me see.
They're a little bit more worn-in.
So she wanted to wear those.
We got the crown, the hairstyle,
the dress, the jewelry, the gloves.
Wow, Ziya.
Oh birthday princess,
oh birthday princess?
It's time for your makeover.
We have everything set
up for you in the salon.
Welcome to the salon.
So we have your station set up here.
And today your services
include makeup and nails,
since you've already got your hair done.
We can add some makeup
and do some nail polish,
how 'bout that?
I'm gonna scooch you over a little bit.
Actually, I'm gonna
scooch you over this way.
- Mommy, these brushes are 2x2.
That's funny.
- [Raven] So first we're gonna
start with the eyeshadow.
And I have lots of beautiful
colors for you to choose from.
We have this palette.
And we have this palette as well,
which has some nice shimmer colors in it.
- Like shimmer and shine colors.
- [Raven] Mm-hm, I need
you to pick three colors
that you would like for your eyes.
- I like blue...
Green, and yellow.
- [Raven] Blue, green, and yellow?
Might I make a suggestion,
that since you're doing pink, purple,
and blue for your birthday colors,
do you wanna match your outfit?
I mean you can do whatever you want.
Just a suggestion.
But I do have pink, purple, and blue
if you wanna match your birthday colors.
- Pink, purple, brown.
- [Raven] And brown, okay.
Sounds to me like you'd
like all the colors.
So take a brush and I'm gonna
go first with a nice hot pink.
(upbeat music)
How do you like it so far?
(bell chiming)
Good, okay, not done yet.
(chill music)
Look at what we got so far.
(upbeat music)
- Bum, bum, bum.
Bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum.
Bum, bum, bum.
Is that lipstick?
- [Raven] This is the blush,
it's a liquid blush, cloud paint.
(upbeat music)
Now you have nice pink cheeks, beautiful.
And then we have this.
- Is that lipstick?
- [Raven] No, look at that.
- It has 'B' on it.
(chill music)
- Wo-hoo, beautiful.
(chill music)
Okay, let's see what we
have for lipstick options.
So, I'm gonna let you pick your lipstick.
Dun-dun-da-dah.
What kind of lipstick would
you want, would you like?
- This.
- [Raven] That one?
- Mm-hm.
- Okay.
You're ready for the lipstick,
is this your favorite part?
Good choice, a nice rosy
lip matches your dress.
This is the ColourPop
Just a Tint Lip Crayon.
(upbeat music)
Wow, let me see.
(lips smacking)
Pretty.
Wow Ziya, you like it?
You think that's enough for your makeup?
Are you missing anything?
Take a look and let me know
if you wanna add anything.
You like it?
Or do yo wanna add more eyeshadow,
maybe put some blue in there?
Or you like it how it is?
- Right in here with some of this one.
- [Raven] Why do you, okay,
you want a swatch on your arm?
We'll do a swatch on your arm.
Today is your day.
- Three colors.
- [Raven] You want three colors?
Okay, lets do your colors.
Pink, you wanna look
like a real beauty guru
with the swatches and everything.
There you go.
Was that what you wanted?
We have to do your nails now.
You still want your nails done?
- Mm-hm, I choose pink.
- [Raven] Okay, put your
hands down on the table.
Let's see what we're working with.
Oh, they need to be
cleaned, cut, and polished.
We're gonna give you a
full manicure makeover.
(upbeat music)
- [Ziya] I want pink and purple.
But no glitter, 'cause I
like it with no glitter.
- [Raven] Okay, no glitter.
(upbeat music)
(Ziya blowing air)
Pretty, beautiful makeover, okay.
Do you like it, are you exited?
- Yeah.
- [Raven] Should we take
some pictures of you
while you look so pretty?
Like a photo shoot?
- Yeah, let's do it out there.
- [Raven] We can do it right here
with this nice pink background.
- Yes!
- [Raven] Okay, let me
get my other camera.
- A princess.
Oh, you look so--
- You got your necklaces all--
- With the makeup on.
How awesome.
She's great at doing makeup.
Are your fingernails done?
- Mm-hm.
- Oh, big girl.
You're four?
Oh my gosh, congratulations.
(upbeat music)
- Okay, so as you saw,
my mom came over here.
She was working on finishing up
her little butterfly
decorations that she was making.
And there's some over here.
Making 'em on little strings to hang
for the party decorations.
Right now my mom is distracting Ziya
so I can vlog in secret.
So, the next thing that we're about to do
is we are going to let
Ziya decorate the cupcakes
and probably do the cake pops, as well.
And so, right now she's thinking
that that's pretty much all
her birthday's gonna be, is
just we did princess dress up,
we got a makeover, we did a photo shoot.
And now we're decorating cupcakes
because we're not having a cake,
and we're not having a party.
Because she did ask me
earlier, she's like,
"Are my friends coming over for my party?"
Because she's at that age
now, that's also the sad thing
about it is that, with her turning four,
she is officially, 100% at the age
where she knows what's going on.
She knows what a birthday party is,
she knows what's supposed
to happen, she's excited.
She knows that it needs to
be a cake, and balloons,
and presents, and you
need to have your friends.
Like she is fully aware and
fully wanting a birthday party.
So it sucks that she's finally at that age
to genuinely be excited
and have opinions on it,
but now this year I can't have a party.
So (exhales sharply).
You gotta smile to keep from crying.
And just push through.
So she did ask me earlier, it
was really sad, she was like,
"Are my friends coming for my party?
"When's my party, where's
my party gonna be?
"Are my friends coming?"
And I'm like, "Um, you know,
like I explained to you,
"because of all the germs in the world,
"we can't go to school, and
we can't have people over,
"and so unfortunately,
"we can't have a regular birthday party.
"We can't have your friends
over, unfortunately."
I'm trying to explain it to her in a way
that she can understand but
I don't think she's really,
fully getting it.
She's kind of looking at me like, what?
Yeah, I told her we're not having a party,
we're not having friends over.
And then she was like,
"But what about my cake?"
And I was like, "Oh, I don't know.
"We'll have to see, I don't know."
And I was trying to make it seem like
we're not gonna have a cake or anything.
So, right now I'm about to
tell her about the cupcakes.
But the actual cake will be a
surprise for after nap time.
And all the decorations
that we're gonna have.
Decorations, and balloons,
and streamers, like I said.
So, as of right now she's gonna think
that we're just decorating cupcakes
and that's just it for her birthday.
But when she wakes up from nap...
Ziya!
- Yes?
- [Raven] Come see.
(cat whining)
Why are you crying so much?
Hurry, hurry, hurry, come here.
- [Ziya] Okay.
- [Raven] So, I know you were
asking about a birthday cake,
but I do have some...
Cupcakes.
(Ziya squealing)
And you get to decorate them.
- But how did you make them?
- [Raven] Magic.
(Raven laughing)
- Magical cupcakes.
- [Grammy] Magic cupcakes,
magical cupcakes?
- [Raven] I already got
all the stuff over here.
So you get to decorate these.
So, we're gonna make our
own icing from scratch.
(Ziya giggling)
Are you excited to decorate
your own birthday cupcakes?
(Ziya squealing)
Here, let's put your apron on
so we don't mess up your
pretty princess look.
- Pink apron?
- Uh-huh.
It has my name on it.
- Wow, that's very cool.
- Wait, stand up real quick.
So, we're gonna start by dumping
both of these sticks of butter in there.
- Did you wash your hands?
- Well, they're already clean.
- [Grammy] Yeah, but I think
if we're gonna make icing,
you should be extra clean.
- [Raven] We have freshly washed hands.
Just washed 'em.
So now the first step
of making your own icing
is to put two sticks
of butter in the mixer.
Here, can you dump that in there?
Just hold it by the paper
and then flick it off.
There you go, one and two.
And we're gonna do four cups of sugar.
(Ziya laughing)
Here, you hold the cup.
Let's count.
- One, two, three, four.
- One cup.
- [Raven] Okay, how many cups is that?
One cup, dump it in.
Careful, careful,
careful, careful, careful.
What number is this?
- Two.
- Two.
In the bowl (chuckles).
- Three.
- And--
- Four.
- [Raven] Vanilla
extract, three teaspoons.
- Mommy, I wanna smell it.
- Huh?
- I wanna smell it.
- Smell it?
Hold it good so I can pour this in there.
We're gonna do three, ready?
One, dump it in.
Two, three, good.
Hold it good and strong.
How many is that?
- One, two.
- Let's start with that.
Now let's start mixing
and see how it works.
And here, you can turn the button on.
Slide it just one slide over.
Woo-hoo.
It's turning into frosting, look.
(Ziya squealing)
Is that cool?
Here, do you wanna taste it?
What does it taste like?
- Vanilla frosting.
- Okay, good.
Next, now that we have our icing mixed up,
we have three different bowls
because now what do you
think we're gonna do?
- Color them up
- Color them up with
three different colors.
The colors are?
- Pink, blue, purple.
- Okay.
- So, first I wanna start with purple.
- Okay, dip the toothpick in there.
Okay, now dip it in there.
And swirl it around.
And get all the color off.
Okay now, take your
little spoon and mix it.
Wow, see it's turning purple,
we're trying to make a nice light purple.
So mix it up real good.
Now do you want me to finish mixing it
while you do the next color?
I'll finish mixing it, now let's do blue.
Swirl it, swirl it, get all the color off.
Oops, that's okay.
(Raven chuckling)
Here's your spoon, stir it.
- [Grammy] Hold the bowl
with your other hand
while you're stirring.
(Ziya laughing)
- Is that a pretty purple color?
- Yeah.
- Okay, now we have purple.
Everything's matching,
this is your color scheme
that you picked out for today.
Pink, purple, and blue.
What do you think about this blue?
Is that good?
- Yeah.
(upbeat music)
- And look, what color is it turning?
It looked like it was red but--
- Pink!
- You like that pink or should
we add a little bit more?
- I like it.
- Now we have our three colors.
- We can put it on the cupcakes.
- These cupcakes, where
did they come from?
Who made these?
- I don't know.
- They just magically appeared.
- I'll do pink first.
- Okay, you're gonna do it with a spoon?
(upbeat music)
Wow, you're so good at that.
Okay, next one.
You sneaking a lotta licks.
- I'm trying to not get them on my hand.
- Okay.
- I think this one could be blue.
- Okay, do you want a
different knife for the blue?
Are you eating it?
- Just so it can be clean.
- Oh, just so it can be clean?
- Is my lipstick on?
- Yeah, we can put some more
when you wake up from nap.
(upbeat music)
Ready to do another blue one?
- I think I'm gonna do a purple.
- Beautiful, Ziya.
Great job.
- Sprinkle.
- You're ready to do the sprinkles?
These stars, we have
these little gold stars.
(upbeat music)
- Wow, can you say ta-dah?
- Ta-dah!
- Okay, now we have to eat
lunch so you can taste one.
After you finish your lunch.
- I can't wait to taste one too.
I wanna taste one after
you eat your lunch.
- Okay, so you ate your
lunch and now you get to have
your cupcake as the finishing
touch of your birthday.
- Purple, said I could have purple.
- You can have blue.
- [Grammy] Okay.
- And I'll have a--
- Oh, Mommy gets one.
- Pink one, this one.
No, I don't want a lot of icing, actually.
- We gotta do a birthday toast.
To Ziya, the sweetest little
four-year-old on Earth.
- Cheers, cheers.
- Happy birthday.
- Yay.
Bougie, you want some?
(Raven scoffing)
- Bougie said what about me?
What you all doing here without me?
- Mm.
- Is it good?
Yay, happy birthday.
Did you have a good birthday?
- She looked around like.
This is how it is.
- Was that enough things for a birthday?
That was pretty good
for a birthday, right?
We did dress up, makeover,
photo shoot, and cupcakes.
Was that good enough?
- Mm-hm.
But something's missing we forgot to do.
- What?
- What did we forget to do?
- Remember on my birthday we blow bubbles?
- You did blow bubbles.
- I blew bubbles.
- You went outside with Grammy earlier
and you did some bubbles, remember?
So we did that.
I think that's it, that
was a good birthday, right?
Yay.
- Yay.
That was the best cupcake ever, Ziya.
You did a great job decorating and icing.
It was very yummy.
- You ready to take a
nap after you eat that?
Ziya's been doing some online
classes for her school.
We didn't do them today
because we were so busy
decorating cupcakes and stuff like that.
But they recorded something
and sent it to us.
This is your class.
(children singing "Happy Birthday")
They said they wanted cake,
too bad we can't share.
- [Grammy] We can make more cupcakes.
(Ziya squealing)
- Wasn't that nice that
they made you a video?
Okay, nap time.
Okay, I just laid Ziya down in her bed.
She's not like actually asleep yet.
Hopefully, she will actually
fall asleep and stay asleep
for like at least an hour or two.
Give us some time to prep the surprise.
My mom is wrapping her gifts.
Her first blonde doll.
- She said she wanted it to be blonde.
Yellow hair is what she said.
So she can have, all her dolls are brown,
she can have a yellow-haired doll.
- She said she wanted a
doll with yellow hair?
- And princess, it's
kind of her birthday--
- What doll is that?
- This is Baby Alive.
- And a Fancy Nancy doll.
- Yeah, I only have a little
bit of wrapping paper left.
Gonna have to scrap it together.
Add a extra piece down the middle.
But I have all my presents
wrapped and hidden
in this bathroom.
I wrapped all my presents
and I have one gift bag.
These are decorations.
Yeah, I only have a limited time
to actually decorate this cake
so that's what I'm gonna do first.
So, I'm gonna be using the same icing
that we mixed up for the cupcakes.
I also had some just plain
white left over from yesterday.
And we got some special
stuff to decorate with.
But let me get the cake
from my secret hiding spot.
And make sure it's okay.
I haven't checked on it
since I put it in here,
so I hope nothing went wrong.
Looks good, it'd definitely
cold in here, yeah.
I was worried that this was not
like a full-powered
refrigerator but it's fine.
(upbeat music)
The crumb coat looks pretty good.
It's like kinda like hardened.
I'm going to transfer these
icings into icing bags.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so I am going to try
and do a gradient effect
by piping icing of each
of the three colors.
We have three layers of cake here,
so I'm gonna do like one
layer of blue, purple, pink.
And like just pipe it around.
And then smooth it out.
That's my plan.
(upbeat music)
Meanwhile, while I'm doing
this, my mom is over here
decorating the space.
Making a curtain of some sort
out of a leftover tablecloth.
(upbeat music)
What kinda tutorial did you watch?
- A flower-ballon making tutorial.
- Grammy the clown.
Anyway, here's my cake progress.
I got the icing on there.
Now I'm gonna try to smooth
it and make it like blend.
Except I really feel like I should've,
and I meant to do that,
like if you put it on a
little bit more jaggedy,
it'll make a better gradient
instead of just being a stripe.
(upbeat music)
With this handy-dandy
professional baking tool,
I'm going to smooth it out.
(upbeat music)
Yeah, 'cause it's just
looking like stripes
instead of like blending.
I only halfway watched one little tutorial
on how to do this, so I'm
sure I'm doing it wrong.
(upbeat music)
I think I'm gonna do it
with this textured side.
(upbeat music)
Yeah, it's not a gradient, it's stripes.
Wow, now make five more.
- My breath.
- Think I'm gonna smooth this back up.
(upbeat music)
Okay, is it a gradient?
No, I definitely should
of put the icing on
like in a zigzag pattern, I think,
instead of just stripes because
now it's just like stripes
with a little bit of mixing going on.
But you know, it's cute.
I think this is about as
good as I'm gonna get.
We're gonna add some
stuff to it to jazz it up.
Now I have to try to
make the top look smooth.
(upbeat music)
Sprinkle mixture.
(upbeat music)
Ordered these edible sugar
butterflies off of Etsy.
But there's only like a couple in here.
SugarRobot on Etsy.
Really nice but, oh, okay, I
thought they were like thick.
There's more in here than I thought, okay.
They're just like paper-thin,
there's four varieties
but there's like a bunch of each one.
I thought that was just like one of each.
But they're like these little thin.
I mean the sprinkles
are like kind of jarring
compared to the nice little color scheme
and then these little butterflies.
If we went to the real cake store
and got like the nice
pastel, fancy sprinkles
it would look more professional.
But these are like the Walmart sprinkles
so we're working with what we got, okay?
This is not a professional bakery.
It's just the virgo in me.
Sprinkles are messing up the aesthetic.
Imagine if I had the little
sugar crystals, you know?
I didn't know how nice these
little butterflies were.
(chill music)
I was gonna take some of
the rest of the sprinkles
and put it on top a little bit
so it would like at least
a little bit more cohesive.
And then just put the candles.
(chill music)
This is a very four-year-old cake.
Very Ziya.
And then I got these candles.
The number four, so I guess
I'll put this one in the middle.
And then just put like
two candles on each side.
(upbeat music)
I think I'm done.
Yeah, this is definitely Ziya style.
It's got a lot of pink,
her favorite colors.
(upbeat music)
(ballon expelling air)
It's four o'clock.
We got maybe a little over an hour left.
(upbeat music)
At this point, we're just
hanging random stuff up.
Recycling stuff from previous
parties, it's you know?
As long as it's pink,
Ziya's gonna like it.
(upbeat music)
Mayday, mayday, Ziya just woke up.
It's 4:45, we thought she was gonna sleep
till at least 5, like 5:30.
She just woke up and
we're not done at all.
We were just about to take
this and rearrange it.
What do we do, what do we do?
- You go up there and talk to her
and I'll fix this right here.
- You go talk to her.
- You wanna fix it, you wanna fix it?
- Yeah (laughing).
Okay, I have to, mm, okay.
(upbeat music)
Wow, not too shabby.
This can just be confetti (chuckles).
Okay, here's our final product.
Pa-pa is upstairs distracting
Ziya for a few extra minutes.
It actually came out really good.
I had to kinda switch
it up halfway through
but I'm glad that I did.
So these are the party guests.
Stand-in party guests.
Little tea set.
Matches the color scheme perfectly.
Got the cake and carousel
cupcake, cupcake carousel.
Tablecloth and then this
little setup turned out good
with the flower baloons.
Then this thing, hooray you're four.
(upbeat music)
We literally almost
forgot about the presents
until last minute.
Think we're done, we're
having the family join in
on a Zoom meeting.
And I have the laptop set up
so that they can surprise her
and sing "Happy Birthday."
So, they're about to
call in, in four minutes.
So, they'll be ready to go
when I bring her down here.
You done playing with Pa-pa?
You still got your makeup on?
Let me see.
Pa-pa, Grammy needs your help
with something downstairs.
- Okay.
- Did you have a fun birthday?
Well, guess what, I have
something to show you.
A special surprise.
- What is it.
- It's something downstairs.
- Okay.
- Okay, but you have to close your eyes.
Close your eyes.
I'm gonna guide you downstairs, okay.
Don't look.
Step, step, step.
Don't worry, I'm not gonna drop you, step.
Okay, now don't look.
I'm gonna guide you over here.
Don't look, don't look.
Don't look, okay, wait, wait.
Close your eyes, close
your eyes, close your eyes.
- [Grammy] Close.
- One, two, three, surprise!
- [All] Surprise.
- Happy birthday.
- Happy birthday, Ziya bear.
- [Pa-Pa] How 'bout that, huh?
- [Raven] Whoa.
(Ziya squealing)
Did you see who's on the screen?
- [Grammy] Ava, Austin, Maya, PJ, Ashley.
- [Raven] Come look at the screen.
- [Grammy] PJ says, "How old are you?"
- How old are you?
- What number is that?
- Four.
- Big four-year-old.
- Did you see your cake?
- Here's your cake.
Show everybody.
- Come see, show everybody to the party.
- [Raven] Virtual party.
Hi, PJ.
- How are you?
- Fancy.
- [Raven] You got presents.
Did you think you were
gonna have your birthday
with no presents and no cake?
- You look so beautiful.
- It's a garden party.
But she wanted butterflies and flowers.
- I love that, Ziya.
It's so pretty.
- Put everything on there.
- We couldn't have real guests,
so her stuffed animals came.
- Aw, I love that.
- [Grammy] All of your friends are here.
- [Pa-Pa] And rabbit with big ears.
- [Raven] What do you
think, do you like it?
Thumbs up, or thumbs down?
(bell chiming)
- [Pa-Pa] Thumbs up, there ya go.
- [Raven] Good, do you like your cake?
Guess who made this cake.
- [Pa-Pa] Who made that cake?
What do you think?
- [Raven] A magic fairy
just dropped it off.
- I don't know about that.
- Just like the cupcakes.
I don't know where they came from.
It's a tea party.
Look, your cupcakes, remember?
- [Pa-Pa] Yeah, how 'bout that?
- [PJ] How am I eating these
cupcakes over the Zoom?
(all laughing)
- That's cruel and unusual
punishment right there.
- Okay, should we light the candles?
- I lost the thing.
- It's in my hand.
- Oh my gosh, Ziya,
look at all the butterflies in your hair.
- She's got butterflies in her hair.
- [Pa-Pa] Here we go, flame on.
- [Raven] Wow, there's Maya.
Look, say, "Hi, Maya."
Everyone came to your party.
- Okay, we gotta sing.
Everybody sing, I'll start off on off-key.
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday dear Ziya ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
(all applauding)
- [Pa-Pa] Big blow, big
blow, one more, one more.
There ya go.
You want pa-pa to pick you up?
Yay, you're born.
Should we cut the cake or
should we open presents first?
- Open presents first.
- Okay.
- Did you really think you
weren't gonna get any presents?
- A baby doll crib!
- How 'bout that.
- Wow.
- Okay, open the next one.
- Wow.
- What's that?
- Another princess outfit.
- Who's that for?
- For my baby.
- She needed some new pretty pajamas.
- It's for Fancy Nancy.
- Oh, Fancy Nancy.
Did you have a good birthday, Ziya?
Are you happy to be four?
