the big 4 year old!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHARON ISABELLA!!!
This was definitely her best birthday yet. I talked it up all week with her and her class celebrated with her on Wednesday to ease her into it. Rj and I carry on my family's tradition of "picking out of the bag" for birthdays (instead of wrapping presents, they all go unwrapped into a bag and the birthday boy/girl reaches in blindly to pick presents throughout the day). It's very fun and this is the first year that Sharon was able to really get into it. We would tell her "okay, it's time for the birthday bag" and she'd come as fast as she could to get to that bag! So fun! She loved her birthday dinner (pizza) and ice cream cake and was even excited to blow out the candles (in years past she has been too scared to deal with any of it!) She went to the science center today with her buddy Jack and got to pet some critters and see the monkeys that she loves (after a neurology appointment...guess it wouldn't be a complete day without at least one doctor appointment????)
Grandpa Baer came up from Florida so she has had a ball playing with him, barely letting him out of her sight for a minute!
The family came over the celebrate with cake and we got a nice group shot of that, along with a "picking out of the bag shot". I wasn't quick enough to get a good picture of her with the cake, but had to put one up since the cake was priceless. Rose, who is our resident cake girl, was ill today so Jason took charge and decorated the ice cream cake...if you can see, it actually says "Sharon" on there somewhere...