Birthday Girl

Soon our little baby girl will be five years old. I don't even know how that is possible. Life really does fly by in the blink of an eye. Phoebe is full of curiosity, compassion, and smarts. She's the best big sister a brother could ask for. She loves school, crafts, playing at the park, visiting her grandmas and other family, and helping me with any task she can.

We celebrated her birthday with my mom's side on Mother's Day weekend. It was the weekend of birthdays since there are a ton of them in May and June. Phoebe was blessed to receive a fancy new carseat (goes up to 120 pounds as a booster), dresses, a collection of porcelein dolls, craft supplies and much more. We spent a nice day playing outside and cooking out.

This year we decided to do a small party with her school friends. I had looked into party places like Monkey Joe's, but we didn't want to spend $200+ on a crazy party. Phoebe had picked out a book from her school scholastic order called A Little Fairy Magic by Julia Hubery. We didn't realize it at the time, but the story is about a mouse named Phoebe! She gets a new fairy outfit from her parents for her birthday and she tries to do some fairy magic.

Phoebe actually came up with the idea of doing a fairy birthday party around that book. She picked five friends for her fifth birthday party. I got to work figuring out how to do a magical party on a small scale at our house. I ordered costumes for Phoebe and all the guests from a website called Halo Heaven. The girls received a pink leotard with attached tutu, miniature fairy wings, wand, and halo headpiece. And I saw an idea on pinterest for little fairy houses (bird houses). Oriental Trading company had an inexpensive pack of houses that locked together. I also ordered some glittery butterflies, pink jewels, and flowers for the girls to use in addition to markers.

The girls had so much fun. Luckily two moms stayed to help wrangle all the fairies. The party was only scheduled for two hours since the kids were ages 4-5 and I figured that would be plenty of time to read the book, decorate fairy houses, eat cupcakes and open gifts.  We ended up having enough time to play in the kids' freshly organized playroom. The girls loved the baby toys and dollhouse.

I'm trying to upload pictures, but they are just showing up as red X's. Boo. I also have some pictures from the park. The kids ask every single day to go to the park. Last week I packed a lunch and we spent two hours there. It is so special to make those memories with the kids.