Saturday, February 2, 2008

Happy 7th Birthday Hope!

Hope's 7th birthday was December 30. Yes, we're a little late with her blog update. Between parties, sports, scouts, homework, etc, etc, blog updates seem to fall to the bottom of the to-do list lately.


We had a small family "party" Christmas day. As you can see, Hope still like's princesses.






























She enjoys opening gifts with the family.





















"Oooh, I love it!"






On January 5 Hope had her first kids' party. About half her kindergarten class was able to attend. She had such a good time that she must have come up to us a dozen times to tell us how much she liked her party, from her princess castle cake, to running around Bette's Family Fun Center with her friends, to having them sing Happy Birthday to her.









It was great to see her interacting with her classmates. We're so used to seeing the boys with their friends when we pick them up from daycare and with Tim we've really watched them all grow up together and seen their relationships evolve. It's very different with Hope. Very few of her classmates are in aftercare with her so we really don't get to see her interact with her peer group much.


It was amazing to watch her take charge, from playing the gracious host, greeting all her friends and group hugging the girls they way only young girls can, rounding up her best buddies to climb the giant slide or go on her favorite moonbounce of the moment to handing out goody bags and thanking everyone for coming.













And of course, she had a great time opening all her gifts later that night.


4 comments:

Ginny said...

Looks like a great birthday party.
Happy birthday Hope!
Let's get together in the spring and either go to the zoo or to Dutch Wonderland.
Ginny

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