Rebecca's 5th Birthday

Today our dear Rebecca celebrated her 5th birthday. For her birthday Rebecca had chosen to go swimming instead of having kids over for a birthday party. It was decided that we would go swimming on Saturday, the same day family was coming down to celebrate. She also asked if she could go to Early Years on her birthday. Seeing as it has been a very long time since I have taken them, I didn't have too much problem agreeing to this. We spent most of the morning at the Early Years Centre. It's been a while since we had gone and it was neat to see the change in James since the last time we had been. He had lots of fun exploring.

Rebecca had requested cupcakes for her birthday cake. Mom liked that idea ... much easier then making a cake. We had fun together icing the cupcakes. Rebecca picked the colours to mix together and tried to guess what colour the combination would make. After we iced the cakes I gave her a few different kinds of sprinkles to put on top. The final touch was adding individual letter candles to each cupcake to spell Happy Birthday.





When Marietta arrived home from school Rebecca was dressed and ready to head outside to paint some snow. I filled squirt bottles with dyed water and away they went to see what they could design. They had never done this before, so they found it quite fascinating. It would have worked better on a warmer day as Rebecca found it quite hard to handle the bottles with her mittens on. I was suprised at how far they managed to get off of each little squirt bottle. I thought I'd have to refill them more, but it being cold they were ready to come in after finishing off the four colours.



Never to be left behind, James had to come outside and give it a try too. He couldn't actually squirt the bottle, but, as difficult as it was for him, he was content to carry one around and look like he was doing the same as the girls. This was the first time he had been outside to play since the freezing rain we got last Friday and he found it difficult walking and couldn't understand why he kept wiping out. But still, he refused to come back inside until everyone else was done.


Once done outside, it was time to eat the yummy cupcakes and then on to the next thing Rebecca had asked for. This item she had actually put on her wishlist as a present that she wanted. We usually get our eggs fresh from a farm and they are always brown. It is rare that we buy white eggs. Rebecca seems to think that if we buy white eggs we should also colour them (I let her try brown eggs once just to show her that they don't colour, or at least not very well). So on her wishlist she asked for white eggs that she could colour ... an easy child to please! :) So the girls spent some time colouring eggs while I prepared supper.




Grandma W. called after supper to wish Rebecca a Happy Birthday. James was rather disappointed that he did not get an opportunity to talk. He loves to listen on the phone and as soon as one of the kids gets to talk on the phone he thinks he gets to ... "talk, talk, talk" ... his way of asking for his turn.





After patiently waiting all day it was finally time to open presents. We hid the presents and then Rebecca ran around finding them and opening them. One present she opened and thought that it was headbands for her hair. We let her try them on to see how they would work as headbands ... what do you think??