Celebration

What are you celebrating today?

Cinco de Mayo? The Kentucky Derby? The full moon?

We're celebrating seven wonderful years of Edith May Eleanor.

 

The birthday kid gets to wear a fairly fabulous monkey hat while handing out treats in Edith's class.

 Three friends came home with Edith for a first-ever (for any of them) sleepover birthday party. But as I kept saying, how could a party with Faith, Grace, and Serenity go wrong? It wasn't quite that simple, but we got through the party with no tears, no midnight wake-ups, and everyone reasonably sanguine the next day. The one thing we hadn't counted on: While we expected them to stay up late, as they did, we didn't realize that these guys were young enough not to sleep in. So while they drifted off around 10:30, they were up at 6:00, excited for the party to continue.

Alice wanted to make sure no one forgot there are two daughters in this family. And to be fair, she also just likes a good party. Later in the afternoon after the guests had left, she asked wistfully if  F,G, and S might come for another sleepover for her birthday when she turns four, as she could imagine nothing better.

 

A parrot kept the "7" company on Edith's low-key birthday cake. In her perfect world, she would have gotten a pet parrot for her birthday. The nice thing about seven year olds is that they often understand how and why the world differs from their ideal.

Parrot tattoos seemed to be a reasonable substitute.

 

Or monkeys, if that's more your style...

Happy birthday, kiddo. No longer a little kid but a full-fledged, school-aged, in-the-prime-of-childhood kid now. And yes, it's starting to fly. But oh, what fun.