Five!

While Zadie is an incredible baby and I could regale you with happy tales of spit up and funny faces, it seems more appropriate to talk about one of the other incredible girls we have. Sophia turned 5 yesterday. She has literally been looking forward to and talking about her birthday since the moment the last one ended. As you can imagine, over a year's time she developed quite the itinerary of all the wonderful things she could do or eat on the magical day when she transformed into a five year old. I didn't want to disappoint her so I prepared her for the possibility of birth, or recovery, or extreme fatigue usurping some of her plans. And then Zadie so considerately arrived a week early. And Sophia is such a sweet child and such a good-natured trooper about most everything that I thought, newborn or not, this is an important day for Sophia so let's treat it that way. I even went so far as to invite other children over for a little cookie decorating  party. 

 

While playing glow-in-the-dark mini golf with a newborn was a bit exhausting, it was worth all of Sophia's smiles. While I might not have chosen to spend baby napping time making cookies, that too was worth it. And while I am already cringing at having to travel with the little guitar Jakob got her I am sure that will also be worth it when she can serenade me to sleep. 

 

Happy Birthday!

Birthday high

Hard at work celebrating