Someone had a birthday last month...ish - Princess

In keeping with my tradition this year of blogging everyone's birthdays a month late, here is Princess' 7th birthday.

She decorated her own cake (and at least she helped make it; she might have made it herself too, but I'm not 100% sure and she's in UT right now so I can't ask). Her birthday theme was Under the Sea, following her school's musical program.

We celebrated several days. Day 1 was with my parents while they were in town visiting us. She opened her presents from them and we all enjoyed cake and ice cream. We ate a lot of pizza and tried to figure out just how far her walkie talkies would reach (answer: not as far as the pizza place).

She got soft and fuzzy things mostly.

Also a couple games and a bunch of really noisy dress-up shoes.

Princess has taken to origami lately, so she made her own party hats. Pop is a good sport.

She didn't get quite enough made for everyone, so we pulled out some hats from last year. Superstar is also a good sport, as long as you know he is a Prince, not a Princess.

The next day was her normal birthday and we gave her our gifts (more soft and fuzzy things, mostly) plus some books and a tracing tablet for our artistic girl. One of the fun things was her pausing opening her gifts to start reading each of the books she got.

Then she had a few friends over for a party. They played in the kiddie pool and enjoyed some games. She tried to teach them a little origami.

She was a very happy little seven year old, but she did one thing I wish she hadn't ... she started looking older and more grown up. Your kids aren't supposed to get older! Sigh.