Hayden's Birthday Party at Preschool

Today Gracie and I went to celebrate Hayden's birthday with her class at school. It was lots of fun! Gracie wasn't to sure what was really going on, she just walked around checking out all the toys. When we got there all the kids were sitting at their lunch table getting ready to eat lunch. Once I walked in with the strawberry cupcakes they all got REAL excited. Kierstin wasn't even going to eat her lunch she was just going to wait on the cupcake, I finally convinced her to eat a little bit of her sandwich, next thing I knew it was completely gone. Hayden ate all of her lunch, Mrs. Christie says that she always eats her lunch good! Paxton, which is the little boy that really LIKES Hayden was sitting at her table today and he was very excited about Hayden's birthday, it was really sweet(he even gave me a big hug just for being Hayden's Mommy!). All of the boys and girls were excited to see Gracie, they all wanted to pick her up and hold her(except she was having absolutely no part of that). Michael really liked Gracie, he just couldn't help himself from following her around, even though he repeatedly got in trouble for being out of his seat(it was so funny).

Once they got done with their lunch, I passed out the cupcakes and just about all of them ate only the icing, Mrs. Christie says they always have lots of bald cupcakes that go in the trash after birthday parties. There were two little boys that ate all of their cupcake and said they were very good, but wanted to know why they were all PINK. I told them because that is Hayden's favorite color and they seemed okay with that! You should hear the conversations these kids have at lunch it was so funny, they all tried to talk over each other, except for little Hayden, maybe she was a little shy today being that she was the center of attention. She really does not like being the center of attention, she wouldn't even look up the whole time the class sang Happy Birthday to her and her little face even turned a little pink, I guess she was a little embarrassed. I was really surprised she didn't sing it to as much as she likes to perform songs these days. She got a birthday present, which was a flute that makes lots of noise(Yay).

Then Mrs. Christie had all the kids pick out a book and sit on the floor, she lets them look at books first and then she reads to them until the end of the day. Of course after the sugar fix of cupcakes, none of them really cooperated with rug time today, but it was so interesting to see what they do everyday. Mrs. Christie told me again today that she just loves Hayden and she is so sweet!

Yummy cupcakes, look how pretty I made them:

Princess Hayden:

Paxton wanted his picture taken too:

Eating only the icing:

She is picking out her birthday present:

Hayden and Kierstin:

Gracie and Grant, I think Mark is going to have a hard time with the boys and his girls:

Gracie wanted to play too:

Oh and we also got big and exciting news today, Hayden will be going to George Walton Academy for the next school year, she will be in K4 and go from 8-12, 5 days a week. Yeah, I know we all knew she would pass with flying colors, but I still cried after I found out that she was accepted(I know I am just too emotional)! I think she will adjust just fine, it will be me that has to get used to her being a big girl at school 5 days a week. We are so proud of her.

Just some extra pictures from the weekend...

Hayden on Aunt Vickie's horse...She wasn't to sure about it though:

Playing dress up, see if you can figure out everything she has on:

She DOES NOT like to be the center of attention: