Faithy Turns 4!

We put out her presents on Friday while she was at school, which led to her running back and forth we she got home, screaming, "I can't wait! I can't wait!". All week leading up and all day Saturday, all she could talk about was her "Happy Birthday" and what she hoped that each person had gotten her.

This week in school, it was also her turn to be "special person". She and Marisa (more Marisa than Faith) did her poster board and we got to go into her class and watch her present it. She pointed to all of the photos and explained who each person was and what she was doing with them. Her class and teacher then sang her the special person song and she got to excuse her classmates all one by one. She also got to take home the class Teddy Bear "Calvin" for the week. Calvin has been to our house before, but each time the children get him, he is supposed to accompany that person for the week and you complete a photo pages of what you did with Calvin when you were the special person. The photo album goes with Calvin to each home. It's pretty cool to see all of the places that Calvin has been.

Calvin went out with us on Saturday night to pizza with some friends. After dinner we stopped on the way home and got donuts for Faith's "Birthday Breakfast". Sunday morning Faith got up, had her donuts and then opened her presents. She got a couple of new "guys" a stuffed dog and bunny that she just loved, a new game which we played as soon as presents were done, some very pretty new clothes and new"ballerina stuff" and dance lessons from her Auntie Sue. She immediately changed into her ballerina clothes and we put in the ballerina lessons CD and she proceeded to dance around the living room to the music.

After the presents, we went to an indoor play area here called "Monkey Business". Faith had requested that she go there for her party. The guests that she wanted to invite were Tanner and Jake. So the three of them played in the obstacle course, bouncy house and giant slide for the next hour or so. We then went out and got lunch, ran some errands (the included picking up the Princess cake) and came back home.

After dinner and cake, which the kids liked less than the "idea" of cake. We had a movie night and watched "Alpha and Omega". After that it was off to bed for our exhausted and very happy four year old girl.