Birthday Party Day

Faith had her first birthday party with friends today. But before we get to her, first a story about about Emilee.

Emilee was invited to her best friend's party.  The two parties just happened to fall on the same day.  Faith decided it was best for Emilee to go to her friend's party.  So Paul took Emilee/Samuel, and I did Faith's party here.  Last night, we still had not picked up a gift for Emilee's friend, so on my way home from work, I called Emilee and told her I was stopping for a gift.  I asked, "What does 'Jane' like to play with?"  She said, "Stuffed animals and me."  Super cute!

Faith had a garden party.  Very ironic since I was driving kids home in three inches of snow.  We had a tea party using the tea set Grandma Cookie gave her.  Instead of tea, sugar, and cream, we had hot chocolate, marshmellows, and cinn sticks.  She loved it and the little girls were so cute pretending to be prim and proper.  The cups say Faith, Hope, and Love, and everyone got a kick out of the Faith cup.  It all was adorable.  They dressed up in our dress-up clothes and stayed that way until we left for the movie.

One last story about Faith: In music class, they let the kids wear headphones and play around on keyboards composing "songs."  The teacher goes around and listens to a "song" from each student.  When he got to Faith, she played one of her memorized piano pieces from lessons.  The teacher said that she was very good, and he asked her to play for the whole class. She was so proud telling the story to us, and got tons of praise from her classmates.  What a confidence boost!  I asked her, "Did you tell him you take lessons?"  She replied, "Yep.  He could already tell."




    

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