Happy 9th Birthday Emma!

This week was Emma's turn.  Luckily for her, we were all healthy!  She had a birthday party at the roller skating rink on Saturday, and then her friends came back to our house for ice cream sundaes.  Of course Joel decorated her birthday chair and blew up lots of balloons.  We let her open one gift on Saturday, and it was a microscope!  She really wanted one and had fun looking at slides.  Sunday morning she opened her other 2 gifts, we gave her my old ipod and headphones.  I had already preloaded lots of Christian songs on it, along with her favorite CD, Toby Mac :)  I love how she likes these songs and goes around singing them!

I can hardly believe it's been 9 years since we brought her home from the hospital.  The time has gone so fast in many ways, but it also feels like she's been here forever.  I remember when we moved into this house and it was summer so I was done teaching, so we went to the park a lot and the library.  She called the swings the "wee".  And then came baby Ya Ya (her name for Amelia).  

This year Emma has been very interested in horses, panda bears, kitties, gymnastics, and music.  Her favorite color is purple.  She has loved her first year of school at Dayspring and is excited to go back next year.  Her favorite subject is recess, of course, followed by PE.  She has gotten all A's on her report cards!  During this past year she has taken her first communion, won the spelling bee, gone to horse camp, started gymnastics, been to many sleepovers, and started to love building with Legos.  She is a big help at home with Amelia and Luke, and she still likes snuggle time with me :)

Ansley

I love this picture of Kayla!

Abbey

Gaeligh

Emmy

Amelia

And Luke, of course

Emma blowing out her candle in her sundae

Emma with her handmade scarf for her and her American Girl dolls

More gifts!

She got to create a sign for her room

Mia decided she wanted to be a present too

The birthday chair

Her reaction when she opened the ipod

I think she likes it, don't you?

For her birthday cereal she chose Cocoa Krispies with marshmallows.  It was a great weekend celebrating her 9th birthday, I am not ready anytime soon to move onto double digits!