Birthday Morning

This little cutie woke up VERY excited for her birthday!

 In fact she had a hard time falling asleep the night before!

In our house we put up signs for the birthday person. 

Sophie was delighted with her birthday signs and Mommy was even more delighted when Sophie read "Sophie is 7" from her sign. Granted she knew her name and the number 7, but we've been working on the word "is" in her reading lessons and I was thrilled that she read it on her sign!

Sophie went with me to pick out some of her presents. I wanted to be sure we chose things she really wanted. But after I wrapped them all, she pointed to each present and said,

"rings, color, play game". She knew what was in each gift. 

Well, that was not going to do.

There had to be some surprises! Mommy had to go do a little more shopping!

This is the VERY FIRST BIRTHDAY SHE HAS EVER CELEBRATED!

That breaks my heart, and makes it so special that we are the first ones to honor her birthday.

How do you make a little girl who's never celebrated a birthday wait to open presents until Daddy comes home? You don't! So I let her open one before breakfast!

"School," she squealed, excited about a white board to practice her letters!

More birthday to come...