4th birthday

On the 26th all of our Christmas decorations came down and we were in full birthday mode! My parents were here for a few days and we had a little family party for Lauren. And then on January 3rd, when the kids were back in school, Dave and I went in to her school and celebrated again with Lauren’s class, where she did the traditional Montessori birthday walk around the sun (a candle) holding a globe. And for the third and final celebration she had a party with friends at the Mud Room, a paint-you-own-pottery spot in Ardmore. We had 22 kids and no broken pottery – amazing!

The crazy birthday girl!

The birthday girl at her friend birthday party

Blowing out the candles at her friend birthday party

This weekend we celebrated Sophie’s 4th birthday. On Friday she had a celebration at school. Dave and I got to come in for a special Circle Time, where she presented to the class a poster she made.

She picked these pictures and glued them on herself (luckily I wrote the words on first).

Here we are helping her present it.

Then they do a special ceremony where the birthday kid takes a globe and walks around a candle (to represent the sun) as many times as they are old – so Sophie walked around 4 times while her teacher, Ms. Dhar, talked about significant moments each year in her life. (Yes, she’s wearing a Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon t-shirt. She like’s it because it has a rainbow…and it’s badass).

And then she shared cookies with all of her classmates.

On Sunday we had a birthday party for all of her classmates and a few friends from outside of school at a kids gym called Philly InMovement.

Uncle Dick was there with balloon entertainment.

Sophie did her first handstand!

And I made strawberry cupcakes – a personal request 🙂

And at the end of the party she thanked all of her friends for coming. It was a really fun day and she had a great time being the center of attention and FINALLY getting to turn 4 🙂