Happy Birthday to Sophie!

Our sweet Sophie turned 6 today. I truly can't believe it. Thankfully, we've led up to this day with multiple fun outings and a tea party to celebrate. The celebrating began more than a week ago when Grammy came to town and treated us to a girls' outing to see Peter Pan at the threesixty theatre downtown. It was a fantastic show, and I was impressed with Sophie's ability to stay focused through the full 2 hours.

The festivities resumed this past weekend, with Oma coming to town to help us celebrate. We had a tea party at home with some neighborhood friends and new school friends. The girls enjoyed decorating teapot frames, playing musical chairs and making charm bracelets. It was a great chance for me to get to know some of the girls from school and their parents a little better, and see that Sophie has gravitated towards a nice group of girls.


Today, Eric and I had lunch with Sophie at school and brought cupcakes for her class to enjoy outside after lunch. Another little girl in her class shares the same birthday, so her Mom and I split the baking, which was great since we had to provide 48 cupckaes for the combined multiage kindergarten and first grade classes. Here's a shot of the birthday girls.

Our plan for dinner at one of Sophie's favorite restaurants, Garrison's, has been thwarted due to a tornado watch, so we've altered our plan to pizza delivery. We'll try again for dinner tomorrow night. Happy Birthday, Soph!