We started off Jayden's 5th birthday celebration with a birthday party at Build-A-Bear last Saturday with some close family and friends. Jayden has been planning this birthday party for months now so it had to be perfect and thankfully I think she had a GREAT time!
So after we had the birthday party on Saturday (which in Jayden's mind meant that it was now her birthday, for however many days she wanted, but either way it was her birthday - therefore her way or the highway) we took cupcakes into her Sunday school class that Sunday and then things kind of slowed down just a little. Until Monday night, Jayden has had this loose tooth for the past month or 2 and it was becoming very wiggly. After watching her mess with it I figured I would see just how loose it was and if it was ready to come out....well after about 2 shakes out it came. Jayden then became the hero of the world and nothing could have been any better. She couldn't wait to go to school the next day and show her friends and the only thing she could say to me was "Mama how am I going to eat now that I have lost all of my teeth?" :) bless her heart.
That night she went to bed and to say that she was excited for the tooth fairy to come is an understatement. She wouldn't go to sleep, she would lay there for a little while, then check and yell down the hall that she hadn't come yet. I don't know how many times I had to explain to her that the tooth fairy was like Santa, she wouldn't come until she was sleeping. Finally somewhere around 11:30 (after I threatened her with a spanking) I went to bed and had to set my alarm for my mommy duty since the sleeping was going so bad. My alarm went off in the middle of the night, I did what I had to do, and before my head even hit my pillow I heard her screaming down the hall again accept this time it was..."Mommy Mommy she came! She came! The tooth fairy came and brought me money!!" She was so excited. I sent her back to her bed and that was the last I heard from her that night. CLOSE ONE!! :)
On Jayden's actual birthday I woke her up singing to her (she thought it was the middle of the night and has since told me that I woke her up in the middle of the night just to sing to her - bless her heart)
She had to go to school so she wanted me to bring in cupcakes for all of her friends at school. See at this point we are up to I don't know how many....but TONS of parties and celebrations for this NATIONAL HOLIDAY :)
I know that everyone's family does birthday's different but in my family we go to dinner at where ever the birthday person picks so on Jayden's birthday we went to....Taco Mac. It was a nice dinner actually, just our family and we opened presents and she asked for my sister to make this sand/oreo pudding stuff...so it was basically a night just for her.
That night I put her in bed and it hit me, having a kid who is now 5 - who is excelling at school, who is in the last half of pre-k and headed to "big school"....I don't have a baby anymore. Some how this year though it was ok and I will gladly say that this is the first birthday that I haven't cried. Jayden told me very recently that I don't have to cry anymore, that no matter how big she gets she will always be my baby.
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