A Bit of Cyn

Tomorrow, I will be the parent of a four year old. A FOUR year old!! How can that be?! Seriously, it’s crazy. Looking back, it really DOES seem like four years (or more). But on the other hand, how could it have been four years already? Ugh, I’m so not ready for this.

Since Sophia won’t be at daycare tomorrow, they celebrated her birthday today. I brought in cupcakes for all the kids. They were so cute! All of them were so excited for the cupcakes and to help Sophia celebrate. The tradition is to have all the kids sit in a circle. They turn out the lights, turn a flashlight on, put it in the middle of the circle, while the birthday child walks around the “sun” (the flashlight) while holding a globe (representing the earth, obviously). Then the kids sing this song:

“The earth goes around the sun, tra la la, the earth goes around the sun.
The earth goes around the sun, tra la la, and (child’s name) turns one.”

You sing this song until you hit the child’s new age. It’s really kind of neat!

Then the birthday child passes around pictures; one from each year of that child’s life. Sophia loved doing this, telling all the kids “that one was when I was a baby, with my daddy.” Then we did the cupcakes.

As we were getting ready for the cupcakes, Sophia asked if Drew could help her celebrate, and have a cupcake with her. How could I say no? (Even though I knew it would just upset him more when I didn’t leave the building with him.) They sat right next to each other, eating their cupcakes. It melted my heart, that she wanted him there and that they were so happy with each other at that moment. *awwww* I got some good pictures, too.

I also got a great picture of her with her “marrying friend”, Jordan. Seriously, I think they’ve been talking about marrying each other for over 6 months. Though, they did call it off once, but have since decided to give it a go again. LOL I think all this talk is so cute at this age. They have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about which is part of what I find so cute. Anyway, I’m going to get the picture printed out and give one to his parents. (They love Sophia, so it’s kind of cute.) For the record, no one encourages this talk (as in parents), the kids just talk about it themselves.

Tomorrow we’re giving her a present: an Ariel baby to go with her other princess babies. She’ll love it!! My mom is taking her for the morning, alone, so I hope they really enjoy some alone time together. (I’m taking Drew to the doctor for a follow up on his tubes.) In the afternoon, our neighbors with kids the same age are coming over for a little, tiny celebration. It should be nice. We’ll be doing a party for both kids on May 12th. (Drew’s bday is May 25th, so it works out well to do them together.)

In other Phia news, I have to share something funny she said. We had just cleaned her room, and she look at all her stuffed animals and dolls and told Ron, “I have so many stuffed animals and stuffed people!” Ron looked at me, then back at her and said, “Um, we call them dolls. It’s okay to stuff animals, but we don’t stuff people. They’re dolls.” LOL