April Fool's Birthday

Elena turned seven yesterday. Seven! The age of reason. Long past being a little kid. It seems very strange to me to be the mother of a seven year old already - with a 4th on the way. Everyone told me when she was born that time would fly and she would be grown up before I knew it, and they weren't kidding. She's over a third of the way to graduation! (Seth hates it when I say that. I hate it when I say that, too.)


Anyway, she loved turning 7 and had a wonderful birthday. For her party we had over lots of girls and did lots of girly things. They made paper flowers. They had a tea party. Thankfully we had hot chocolate as an alternative. No one but Elena actually liked the tea (to quote my niece Faith, about 1/4 of the way through her tea: "You know how sometimes you're drinking something, but you don't really like it all that much...." and me:"Is that what's happening to you with that tea?"  "Yeah."). I even made the sweet, milky chai tea, but it was a no go.


Here are a few pictures of the party and a video of her opening a gift on her birthday.