My Big Fat 5th Birthday

My baby is 5!!!! I can't believe it.  The night before she turned 5 she also lost her first tooth!  She is growing up waaayyyy too fast, where does this time go?!

Well we ended up drawing this birthday thing out for about a week. 

We had friends over the weekend of her actual birthday and cooked on the grill and let her open her gifts from us.  She received a LOT of Zhu Zhu pets!

Since I wasn't going to make the cake for her big birthday party, I made her a little cupcake cake to celebrate with that night!  I LOVE pull apart cupcakes!  No "weirdness" in the cutting!

We ended up going to Charlottesville, VA (one of my favorite places) for part of the weekend to visit friends on her actual birthday!  So we didn't have a real party that day, but she got to stay in a hotel and she thinks that is so much fun!   So I guess it's the little things.  If you've read my previous blogs you'll notice that I did NOT have the dress on her that I was intending to make for her birthday, but it became so very very time consuming and tedious and I had a LOT of other orders so we decided (my husband and I) that she will have that dress for her preschool graduation.  I think it's a nice compromise and gives me a bit more time to complete it. 

So, now to her big birthday party (are you keeping up).  We had a giant bowling party with a bunch of the kids from her preschool! It was a blast.  It was a Hello Kitty theme, so I made her a pattern from Childrens Corner, but I forgot that the neckline on this pattern was a bit large and didn't cut it down for her, so I ended up putting the buttons all the way to one side, it looked really silly, but she didn't seem to mind and since I'm the queen of procrastination when it comes to my child, I let it go.  

I thought it was particularly cute with the bowling shoes :)  While this is NOT my favorite outfit, I think it was one of hers because it was Hello Kitty.  

Well

Well hopefully she'll look back on this birthday fondly, I know I will.  While it's heartbreaking to think about how quickly she is growing up, it is such a blessing to get to watch her do it.