Sophie's Special Day

We celebrated Sophie's birthday at school just two days before her actual birthday.  I came along as her special helper and then took the rest of the day off to spend with her.  Craig also took the afternoon off and we had fun playing with our girl, who got to skip nap for the day!  (A big deal!)

She got to wear a new dress for her special day that she'd opened the night before and I kicked off her morning with her very favorite food:  yogurt!  I made her a little parfait so she'd feel fancy and she loved it.

Sophie just doesn't seem to have figured out the whole smile-on-request things with taking pictures.  They just never look genuine unless they're candid lately.  Oh well.

Me & my girl - getting ready to leave for school.

Silly faces.

We swung by Lisa's and picked up Jax like we always do on helper days.

Coloring me a name tag with Jax's supervision.  :)

Circle time and special helper duties on Nana's lap.

Silly Stelly

Mya getting some love from Aunt Shirley.

All of Sophie's school friends sang a birthday song to her at circle time.

"It's a special day,

when it's your birthday.

That's the day to say,

Happy Birthday, to you!"

This is repeated with lots dancing around and then they all point at her when they say "to you!"

Telling the class about her "All About Me" poster.

And a hug for Nana when she was done.

This was show and tell and the kids were listening to one boy talk about his toy tractor.

Stella got the clean up award today!

Working on their Clifford magazines.  Sophie's decided to be a righty this morning.  She changes it up, but most often she uses her left hand.

Cute cousins.

I'd forgotten until earlier this week that this happened to be the day of their "field trip" to the pizza restaurant across the street from the school.  So we brought some chocolate chip oatmeal cookies for dessert after this lunch.  A police officer met us outside and held the traffic until all of the students, parents and teachers were safely across.  So nice!  It was very windy and warm today!

I wasn't so crazy about the beverages served for lunch time.  Why they couldn't just bring out a pitcher of water, I don't understand.  Instead the kids got to choose orange pop or root beer.  :(  Whatev... it's not a regular occurrence.  But it just wasn't necessary.

Waiting briefly for pizza to come out.

I love Sophie's eyes in this picture.

"Cheers, Cheyenne!"

Yum!

After lunch, the kids played the arcade games and the juke box in the restaurant until it was time to go home.

Craig and I had plans of taking Sophie to the park and trying out rollerskating, but the wind just wasn't going to allow that.  And having already eaten pizza at school, we couldn't really take her out to lunch.  So we just pulled her sweaty hair off her neck and played several spontaneous rounds of hide and seek and Duck Duck Goose at home.  It sounds blah, but it was easily the highlight of her day.  She laughed so much and had so much fun with her mommy and daddy's playful attention.

We also took a moment to measure our growing 4 year old's height and mark it on her growth chart in her room.  40 1/2" already!

Sophie is soooo big!

(Again with the cheesy, fake smiles...) Daddy bought Sophie an ice cream sundae and took her to the toy store to pick out a small present of her choice.  (His special ritual with the kids now.)

And then we picked up big brother from the babysitters and the four of us went to the theater to see The Croods, which was very cute.  We were the only ones in the theater and both kids sat so well and enjoyed the movie.

I told Sophie she could pick whatever she wanted for dinner and I would make it for her tonight.  Guess what she picked...  Peanut butter and jelly.  We all said:  "Really? Are you sure? That's what you want?"  And she insisted that it was.  So that's what she had!  Haha!

A fun, special day with our girl!!