Happy 5th Birthday Emily!

Emily was very excited to celebrate her 5th birthday this morning. She has been waiting for this one for a long time and this is the first year that she has been really interested in having a giant party and inviting all her friends.

(At school this morning with her Birthday Girl pin)

Said party took place this past Sunday at The Little Gym. We invited lots of kids from her school and had a pretty good turn out with roughly 17 kids showing up to play. The deal at The Little Gym is that the kids get to run around, bounce on stuff, knock stuff over, play with a giant parachute, and basically just wear themselves out.

At the end, there was cake and juice. The cake became a pretty big deal. She elected to go with a Star Wars cake. Yes, one of the kids in the class has actually seen all the Start Wars movies, and yes, his mother has fully admitted that it is totally inappropriate. :) Nonetheless, Star Wars fever has spread through the class and all the kids are obsessed with it. Emily felt that it was important to get a Star Wars cake because she knew that "all the boys would like it." Yes, apparently we are already concerned with pleasing the boys - lovely.

 

The totally unforeseen issue with the cake, however, was that the faces on it were all edible. However, there weren't enough faces to go around so there was all this concern about who was going to get a face and who was just going to get stuck with plain old white frosting. Of course, no self-respecting five year old just wants white frosting. I mean, really, how lame. Ha! Anyway, most of the kids took their disappointment in stride and we survived.

Emily received some gifts from her friends that we let her open on Sunday, but we have made her wait until today to open the gifts from family. About two days ago she said to me, "Did you get me the spiderman costume that I wanted?" Um, she was serious about that? Oops. So as not to have a replay of the Christmas disappointment when she didn't get her Elsa doll, I quickly jumped on Amazon yesterday and ordered her a spiderman costume. I paid almost $4 in shipping to get it here today (not bad), but I just got a notice that it won't arrive until tomorrow (you get what you pay for, I guess), so we'll see how that goes. 

There are other presents that she asked for which she will get today, and hopefully she will still remember that she wanted them. I suspect that she will because the other day she asked me why I let her say her birthday wish out loud last year. She was totally blaming me for it not coming true. That is, if I had warned her to keep it quiet then it would have worked. Thinking that there was no way that she could possibly remember what she had wished for a year ago, I asked her to tell me again what it was. Of course, I remember what it was because I caught it on film. Well, she hasn't seen the film in almost a year, but she was able to recall her wish almost word for word. So, if we are in luck, she will remember that she also asked for an electric toothbrush and a chemistry kit for making potions (yes, two totally random items). Fingers crossed. 

The other big news for Emily is that she had her official pre-school graduation a couple of weeks ago, complete with cap, gown, and diploma. Very cute. She will still be there for the summer, but she is definitely very excited to head to kindergarten this fall.