Finally, time for a little birthday celebration

Rain rain rain ... the drive to Massachusetts took a long time, but when we finally arrived at ME65 and R68s house we arrived at a party! Party for Q5, K7, and C6. Yes, it isn't even near C6s birthday, but she's decided to forgo a fall gift from Katie so she could participate and get a gift in the spring. I like it. You get enough gifts around your birthday, a half birthday is a bonus.

I'm just going to make this a photo-palooza, OK?





Adorable all. C6mo makes the rest of the girls look like they are in b&w, doesn't she? Notice C6 trying to get in all the photos?




I took FOUR photos of G, G, and C ... in every single one G had her eyes shut!!



A happy birthday, delicious cake (Thank you M41!!), and wonderful family.

new phrases

C6 has been saying "dude" and "true dat" a lot lately. True dat? True dat? It sounds quite funny coming from a 6-year-old white-girl-transplant from the 19th century.

School Performance

Q5 had her school performance on the night of her birthday, so we didn't have even a cake at home, we went to her performance!

The theme was CAMP! and Q5 had to wear shorts and t-shirt and sing camp songs.

The program started with The more we get together and all the children sang:



Skipping over the 2 & 3 year olds ... onto the 4 & 5 year olds!

Down by the bay, where the watermelon grows!! I've been hearing this song for a month ... it was good to figure out where it came from!




Swimming, swimming ... I love this one, all the great strokes. The video is bad, but Q5 cracked me up. She sang this all the time at home, too. And those dive hands ... she practices at swim class every week! And then a little Boom Chicka Boom Boom!






I didn't actually get the fishing joke while they were doing it, but C41 clued me into the punchline. Mumble mumble.




When the show was over there was a dessert potluck. C6 was especially glad about that. Q5 grabbed a fruit by the foot and C6? Look at her plate!!!

Q4 is now Q5!

On Friday, Q4 turned Q5 at 1:20 AM. Half a decade old, and fiesty as ever. She's been excited all week since she's been counting down the days to her birthday.

The day befor her birthday Q4 got a package from J&C. We let her open it.



She loved the dress, but we threw it in the wash to get the too new feeling out of it. Then she sat on the couch and spent a good half-hour doing the sticker book.



On the morning of her birthday the first thing Q5 did was (I think) was open the long anticipated giant box from N&P. I think she honestly was jumping up and down when she pulled out the princess bedding, but we don't have it on camera or video because C41 was still dopy from his Las Vegas trip.

She tried to wear her new dress from J&C, but it was in the wash. So old clothes it was.

After dinner Q5 opened gifts from C41, C6, and me. Her one request to us was that she get a Tangled (the movie), Jasmine (Aladdin, the movie), and Mulan II (the movie). We managed to find Tangled and Mulan II, but Aladdin has been out of stores for so long that we'll just borrow it from the library if we need to. She was very happy opening these! She just sat and read the backs of the DVDs for a while.




Oh, and C6 bought Q5 a beautiful, flowery, springy notepad and a sparkly dog pen and a card ... gifts I think that she herself would very much like.



I didn't monitor what C6 wrote ... but look at the sentiment she shared on the inside.



How much better can that get? Not much.

Crafts

C6 made some panpipes and Q4 made a glass of milk and an outfit.





The panpipes are made from straws ... Q4's milk (you can't see it) is made from the fluff found inside stuffies.

XMass dresses

About 2 years ago I made the girls some dresses. Last year we put the smaller cat one away, thinking Q was too big for it, it was too tight around the chest.

Not any longer.

Here she is in the dress this morning. I guess sometimes when you grow up, some of the "out" goes away. It fits again.

Imagination

I don't really know what to call this post, Q4 wanted me to take a video, and I loved that she was playing some sort of make believe people game with these pottery tools. She was dressing them and having them do things. This lasted for about 15 minutes.