Middle girl celebrated her birthday in style on Sunday and Monday. Sunday was the friend party at the local gymnastics school where she has been taking classes for about 3 years. She had nine friends along with her two sisters as guests and they all had a ball with the "party people" Ann-Marie and her husband Bobbie.
Here are a few choice photos from the party:
A gaggle of girls ganging up on Bobbie.
The birthday girl waiting for instructions (along with friend M).
Eldest girl enjoying Ann-Marie's antics.
Youngest girl stuck close to me for the entire party with the exception of this short
stint on the trampoline - which she obviously enjoyed thoroughly!
Cake time! And for the record, I can no longer be called 'Martha on Crack' (right, K?). I forked over big bucks to let someone else run the party AND I bought the cake from the local bakery!
Present time - with help from mom and friend N.
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On Monday she woke up at 6:30 and I was able to wish her a happy birthday on the exact moment of her birth - 6:53am. Hard to believe that this baby is now six!
(....and equally hard to believe that the other "baby" in the photo - who seemed soooo big at the time - is going to be 9 this winter).
At school she celebrated with all her classmates. Her sisters and I ate lunch with her in the classroom and then we handed out cupcakes (homemade but with canned frosting - see, K? No Martha living here no mo'). This teacher does such a nice job of making the child feel special on their birthday (and even the summer birthday kids get to celebrate before the end of the year). During circle time they do a special little birthday 'ceremony' and sing a special song. One child sits in a chair holding a small candle - this child is the "sun". The birthday child carries a globe and walks around the sun as many times as they are old to signify how many times the earth has been around the sun since they were born. The teacher also reads the A.A. Milne poem "When I am Six" to the child and the class then sings a second 'birthday song' which is not the traditional birthday song. I don't know the words to the songs but they are both very sweet. :-) Oh yeah, and a birthday story is also read to the class and the birthday child gets to take home a special book bag of birthday stories to read at home. I can't say enough how much I love Ms. W!!!
Here are a few pics from the school celebration:
Putting on her special crown.
Circling the 'sun'!
A special birthday poem.
Lunch with mom and sisters.
Happy Birthday!
Time for cupcakes!
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And last but not least we celebrated with my in-laws by having them over for dinner that night! Middle girl requested chicken with spaghetti sauce over pasta and green beans. Nothing fancy so it was an easy relaxed dinner...and of course...more cake for dessert! :-)
All in all, a wonderful couple of days to celebrate the day we first met our very special Middle girl!
1 comment:
What fun!!!! And what great pics to document them all!!
I still can't believe A's birth photo- she looks so much older than "newborn" there! (and wow at R being so LITTLE!)
Dang, they all grow up SO FAST!!!!!! You have triple-fast going on over there, with even more to compare each year! I only compare 2 and it's amazing enough!
~TuxB
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