Riley Turns Six!

Riley is now six!!  She came downstairs to find Buddy the Elf in his favorite spot where he first appears any time that he comes to our home.  Buddy had a present next to him and a note from Santa Clause.  It said that Santa couldn't make it to her birthday so he sent Buddy along with a gift that he knew she'd like.  Riley opened her package to find some zoobles!  She was very very excited about it!  Started her birthday off great!!!

We picked up donuts to bring to her class and then went to school.  Coach sang "Happy Birthday" in the tough guy style (whatever that means?!)  but Riley was so very excited to have Coach so that he could sing it to her.  Her class sang "Happy Birthday" as well and she loved every moment of her day.

After school I had two piano students and then Julia had her performance at school.  My parents stopped by to give Riley their birthday gift.  She was looking forward to it all day long.  My parents came in with an oversized card.  It said:

What is better than a gymnastics class?
_ Cleaning your room
_ Kissing your sister
_ Taking a shower

Riley looked at them a little puzzled and said "Um.  Taking a shower."
They asked her "Taking a shower?!"  She just said "Well, ... no."

The card was turned over and it said "Taking more gymnastics classes!  Riley looked confused for a moment, crossed her arms and then laid down to cry on the couch.  She was so very disappointed because she had really been hoping for a toy or something tangible.

We explained that her gymnastics coach had talked to me during her last lesson and invited her to be part of the Saturday gymnastics lessons.  I then found out that the lessons are by invitation only and are pre-team classes.  It was definitely a huge honor for her to be invited to do it.  Riley warmed up to the idea and started to get more excited.  She'll be more excited when the lessons actually start.

Jeremy and I also told her what we were giving her for her birthday.  She has been wanting her ears pierced so we are doing that.  Another gift that will wait until another day.  Riley smiled huge about it and got very excited.  We also explained that at her party on Saturday, she'd have lots of friends and lots of presents from them so we all tried to get her things that were different than toys, dolls, etc...

She was excited and all ended up great!

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