Birthday Girl

This has been a week full of celebration around the Kozmo house....lots of birthday excitement and holiday events!!!! Grace loves birthdays and was especially excited to be the girl getting to blow out the candles. Even though I feel bad for her having a birthday so close to Christmas, I must admit that all the anticipation, good will, and excitement surrounding the holidays makes for a pretty fun filled birthday week.

We started the week with a party at an indoor playland in town. Grace and her friends ran around like crazy playing video games and climbing on the play equipment. She was one happy gal and I must admit, it was very nice having our birthday hostess worry about setting up, serving, and cleaning up for the event. The only blip was that the bakery lost our cake order which caused me some stress but they pulled together something for us to which Grace replied "that is exactly what I wanted!" I have always made the cakes before and I might go back to that because it was not a good feeling thinking I was going to have to have to tell the birthday girl there was no cake with pink sprinkles.

Next stop was Grace's dance open house. The girl's had been working on a couple of dances for this day on which parents were allowed to come in and watch. Grace has a great "ho,ho,ho" and if you check out the videos, you can see her doing her ballet at the bar (in pink sweater) and performing her tap dance. I stopped taping right before she started getting into it and hitting the moves really well.... She is the youngest girl in her class by about 7 months with girls ranging up to age seven and I think she holds her own quite well. She is learning a lot this year and really enjoys going to her class every week.

At the library, we celebrated one day with a visit from Santa and another with a visit from the holiday pirate (nothing like a little variation.....arghh--that's supposed to be my pirate sound). Will would have absolutely nothing to do with either. The librarian made Grace a tiara for her birthday so she felt extra special and has been wearing it around the house since.

Grace got to be the special helper at school on her birthday and take cupcakes, which was a big deal since we encourage healthy snacks. Then we headed out to lunch where I proceeded to shoot a straw wrapper into Grace's eye. She was tough about it but I felt horrible. I mean, those straws NEVER ever shoot and then I go and zap her directly in her eye on her birthday...great move!!

Despite Mom caused injuries, Grace had a fabulous birthday. She received a TON of phone calls, cards, and well wishes from friends and family. If you happened to call and did not sing "Happy Birthday" to her, she would kindy request that you sing to her. Seriously, the girl loves the birthday song. All day long she felt so special and I must extend a thanks to everyone who helped make her feel like the most important little princess in the world.

In the pics....before and after of present opening.

In the end, Grace hopped in a birthday bag and said she was a present. Yes, little girl, you are the best present ever.

Happy Birthday Grace, we love you!