First Days and Birthdays

Today was Mikayla’s first day of preschool.  She has been so excited to go back and see all of her friends.  I am excited to have a little more structure back in our lives, too.   Today was a little bittersweet, though.  This will be the last year that Mikayla will be in preschool…next year she will be in Kindergarten.  I can hardly believe that she is almost 5!  If you look here and here, you can see past posts from her other first days of school.  I can’t believe how much she has grown. Mikayla requested eggs and cinnamon toast for her back to school breakfast.   She really isn’t much of an early breakfast person, so I wanted to make something she would actually eat.  My sassy little girl all ready for preschool.  She was having a little too much fun posing for the camera.  :)

She is already to go!

Today was also, Jeremy’s 31st birthday.  (What a great birthday present to be able to have a quiet morning!)   We had a nice steak dinner and some cupcakes that Mikayla insisted that we make.  Jeremy isn’t much of a cake person, but Mikayla is very persuasive.  She helped me make the cupcakes and decided that we should have blue icing.  She had a lot of fun making Daddy’s birthday a little more special.

Mikayla is ALWAYS willing to help people blow out their candles.

Gavin really enjoyed the cupcakes too!

He kept taking handfuls of icing and spreading them all over himself.  What a mess!