As I mentioned in a previous post, Sarah's birthday was on Mother's Day this year. As we have the last several years, I offered to throw her a birthday party or take her on a trip. She chose a trip to Dallas to go to the indoor water park at Great Wolf Lodge. I just booked the hotel and we will be going in a couple of weeks.
As I also have done, I still let her have a little birthday party. For some reason the kids don't think their birthday has really passed if they get presents and a cake but don't get to share it with someone outside of the family. So on her actual birthday we invited a friend and her family to come over and have burgers, hot dogs and cake, and then I also let her have a small party with only five friends this weekend. She didn't want to do it on her birthday weekend because she didn't want it to interfere with anybody's Mother's Day plans, so we decided to do it the weekend after.
She invited five girls from her class from school to go paint pottery and then come over to our house for pizza and cake. The girls she invited are all very nice, sweet girls that I would be perfectly happy if she stayed friends with them until she graduated high school. A few of them especially are always making sure Sarah is okay when she looks sad and putting their arms around her to comfort her when she is in a foul mood. Just nice girls, which in a world of mean girls is getting harder and harder to come by.
I am so glad there were only five of them because I don't think I could have handled anymore. I don't know how people let their daughters have big sleepover parties in their basements because I could barely handle of few of them in my kitchen and back yard for an hour or two. Luckily my friend, Theresa, one of the girl's moms, came with me to the pottery place and helped keep everybody on track and take pictures.
Although it was small I think Sarah had a great time and really enjoyed everybody's company. She is really looking forward to our trip to Dallas, but was happy to celebrate her special day here as well. The only downside to the whole day was that Theresa's daughter, Kelly, broke her wrist when she slipped of the trapeze bar on our playset. It was at the end of the party and everybody else had gone home. Sarah felt so bad that today she made Kelly a card and we stopped after Andy's baseball game and Sarah and Amanda each picked out a stuffed animal for her and we took it over to her house. She seemed to be doing pretty well, I hope it stays that way.
It's hard for me to believe that Sarah is eight. She definitely has the attitude, but still seems like my little girl. In some ways she is still little, I took her in for her well visit this week and she was only in the 7th percentile for height and 25th percentile for weight. That means that 93% of the kids her age are taller than her and 75% weigh more than her. At this age it's not too noticeable, but if the trend continues in the next few years we will see a difference. For now I'm just trying to deal with the little girls who isn't acting so little anymore.
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