the birthday pictures as promised

So, the youngest member of the family is now 5!! Five, I hear you cry, how can that be? Where did those 5 years go so fast??
And what wonderful, fun, loving, character building, patience demanding, fantastic years they have been!!!

So on to the day of the birthday!

Louise woke early, of course, and came on downstairs in anticipation of some gifts. Dad was still upstairs so we ran back up to get dressed and washed before we got to open the first gifts.....









From Mum and Dad, she got some Littlest Pet Shop animals and stickers, a large pink spotty piggy bank and a gift card to spend at the shops.....later in the mail she also got the Littlest Pet Shop Wii game which has been a huge hit!!

After school, we went to ballet then to Jim and Sharons for more gifts and pizza for dinner! She is wearing the crown that she got at school for the day - they have balloons and in the earlier pictures, you can see the cup cakes that we took for afternoon snack for her class. All the kids love it when there is a birthday!





Modelling one of her new dresses (she is wearing this again today as a matter of fact!)