Shawn Johnson Celebrates Daughter Drew’s 5th Birthday & the Cake Highlights Two Unique Aspects of Her Personality
If we learned anything from the Barbie movie, it’s that women contain many multitudes. We can wear sparkly pink dresses and dismantle the patriarchy. There isn’t just one way to be a woman or a girl, and we will always support celebrating all aspects of our unique selves! That’s why we were so excited to see Shawn Johnson lifting up her own daughter Drew to follow in this same mindset. The Olympic gold medalist shared several new photos celebrating her daughter’s 5th birthday, and we couldn’t help but notice how Drew’s unique cake highlighted her personality perfectly.
The former gymnast, who shares Drew, Jett, 3, and Barrett “Bear,” 10 months, with husband Andrew East, posted a carousel of photos of Drew on Instagram Tuesday, including one of her in a pink dress and cowboy boots with a metallic silver backpack, a picture of her in a Ghost Spider costume rock climbing with her brother Jett, and a photo of her and Jett in a karate class. Drew also plays tennis, chess, dress-up, and more in these adorable snaps. She’s both girly and sporty — and her cake reflects that!
Slide all the way to the end to see the elaborate cake-in-question, which is light pink with the words “Happy birthday Drew!” and colorful candles on top. The side of the cake is covered in green frosting and has little blue and purple frosting “stones” that make it look like an epic rock-climbing wall. Disney princess toys Rapunzel and Belle are posed to look like they are climbing the wall and just made it to the top. What a cool way to honor this little girl!
“How is she 5 ????,” Johnson captioned the post. “Happy birthday to our sweet girl. I don’t know where the last five years have gone, but I feel so proud and grateful to watch you grow every day. We love you so much. @andrewdeast“
East also shared a tribute to his daughter on Instagram. He shared a video set to “Freeze” by Kygo, full of moments of flipping in the pool, cheering on the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, reading books with her dad, climbing the monkey bars, giving her dad kisses, and more.
“Happy birthday to our 5 year old but can we please freeze @shawnjohnson #kids #parenting #family” he captioned the heartwarming post.
The family of five has had a lot to celebrate recently. They honored Drew’s birthday and did some early trick-or-treating. Johnson shared photos of their Halloween looks on her Instagram story on Tuesday, and everyone looked so good!
First, she posted a picture of her and East, wearing all black outfits. Johnson had an inflatable pickleball costume on and East had an inflatable racket that said “Pickleball Champs” on the front.
Next, they posted a group photo, and their three kids looked so cute! Princess Drew was dressed up like a Disney princess: Ariel from The Little Mermaid! She had on a bright red hair wig and a purple-and-green sparkly dress that looked like a mermaid fin. Jett was a blue ninja, complete with a face mask and toy nun chucks, and little Bear was a wrestler in a tan-colored muscle shirt, underwear outside his pants, and little red boxing gloves.
This family is so much fun, and we love seeing how they encourage their kids to express themselves!
Before you go, check out these celebrity kids who attended the Olympics.