Our big girl Celia turned six this month. To celebrate, she had an animal themed birthday with her friends Gabby, Sophie, and Sophia. She invited some kids from school, but none of them showed up, so it was a nice little party with all people we know. They ate snacks, combining all sorts of fruits and vegetables and making up names for them. A sandwich of cheese and crackers was quite inventive. But then grapes on a celery stick was named a bobsled, and the inventive hilarity continued. They played the same "feed the elephant" game we've been playing for years now (apparently a family favorite), which somehow turned into some game of crawling over each other on the stairs yelling "don't tell me I'm almost there!" Six-year-olds are hilarious. They made special clay pens (a project introduced by Nana) which was a big hit with everyone. Celia opened her presents, and the party ended with a game Celia invented called "pass the party hat" with one remaining hat from cousin Hazel's birthday brunch in January. It was basically hot potato with a party hat. They wanted to play it over and over.
For Celia's actual birthday, Nana and Papa were here to celebrate, so we went to see Muppets: Most Wanted. It was a bit old for Sabrina, but Celia says she loved it (though she spent quite a bit of it dancing down our row in the movie theater). Celia is a joy as usual. She is such a reader, and recently, a writer. She just started reading "Matilda" this week, she's working on writing her "thank you" notes all by herself, and she just got "Student of the Month" for the second month this school year. Nana and Papa gave her a bike with training wheels, which she took for a test drive in the driveway and is looking forward to doing again (she's had the flu this week pretty badly). Happy Birthday Celia! We love you!
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