Happy birthday big girl!

Wow, I cannot believe my little girl is 5, a whole handful, half a decade!  Yikes!  She is a wonderful young lady.  She is amazing and definitely precocious.  She can read most anything and really enjoys it.  She can do addition and subtraction, even 2 digit numbers.  Her vocabulary is astounding.  Her imagination is impressive too.  She is also an amazing big sister.  So sweet to Zoey and so helpful to me.  I could not ask for a better kid.  

We tried to make her birthday very special.  You will notice the shrug she is wearing that she bought with birthday money.  

First was a special dinner on her birthday eve.  Since Nick has to work Monday nights until 9 or so, we all went out the night before.  Sam picked her favorite restaurant, Red Elephant.  She was delighted by the birthday dessert.

We let her use bread knives, but she really wanted to use the real knife.

A picture on the way out.

Then to Nana's and Papa's for a few gifts.

A few presents were waiting for her birthday morning.

Then Nana, Zoey, and I joined her at school for birthday cupcakes.  

Then, she ate a quick lunch in the car and I surprised her with her first professional manicure.  She was so cute.

Her purple glitter nails.

 We rushed home to open presents before Nick had to go to work.  Then, Nana, Papa, Zoey, Sam and I went out to Bob Evans.  They send free birthday kids meal cards and they sing to you.  She loved her smiley face sundae.

The singing.

 Happy birthday to a delightful, amazing, wonderful, incredible, astounding daughter!  I am estatic you are mine.