Happy 5th Birthday Skylar!

Cairn woke Skylar up early this morning so she could get to unwrapping presents.  Here are the kids helping Skylar open her gifts from Cappy and Nana and Mom and Dad.

 A pretty new dress that Skylar loves!

 New fairy princess pj's.

After opening presents, we had chocolate chocolate chip pancakes, took showers, cleaned the house and decorated for the party and then Skylar had piano class.  After piano we returned for the party.

First, they colored Rapunzel pages until everyone arrived and had met each other.

Then we changed rooms and played charades.  It is fun to watch the older kids perform versus the younger ones.  The older ones really get into it and perform big movements and can think of many ways to represent their item but the younger ones do things small and can only think of one way.  They will repeat the same movement over and over so I had to ask questions to get them to guess the right answer or we would still be playing.

 After charades we went outside to play with the parachute and play with bubbles.

Then we came inside for our magic show performed by 8 year old A.  First, she made a nickel much much smaller and then while she cleaned up she found a rather large nickel

 Here is the audience as A performs her magic.

The second trick involved the kids learning how to divide.  First, the large die.

 Then it was divided into very small dice.

The third trick was Skylar got to pick a color and then A guessed it.

 Just handsome Andrew!

 The last trick was putting scarfs into a bowl and they magically changed into lollipops.

After the magic show we opened present while we waited for the ice cream to soften.

Skylar got a necklace making kit.

 A stamp set

 A game called Headbandz and a paint book

 and a sticker book.

Then we had cake, ice cream and fruit.  I didn't get any pictures of the cake since I was carrying it to the birthday girl.  After cake, everyone left and we spent time playing with her new toys.

Skylar asked for angel hair pasta for dinner and we worked on finishing up our cake and fruit.  Ice cream we  will save for another day.

Skylar is growing up to be such a wonderful child.  She is sweet, thoughtful and caring.  She can encourage just about anyone to try with her soft and soothing voice but she can also be super stubborn.  She doesn't give up easily unless she is tired.

She knows how to read 10 sight words such as all, are, is, you; and can read CVC words
She can count to 49,
She can recognize her numbers to 29,
She can cut a straight line,
She can write and spell her name correctly,
She loves art,
She is a natural piano player and easily learns new songs,

She loves to play make-believe with her sister but loves to play games with her brother.
She is slight and delicate but super strong.
She loves books.
She will sit and work through puzzles for hours - she now works on 100 to 200 piece puzzles.

She is a wonder and I still love to watch and admire all her talents everyday.  I love you BB!