Naomi Turns Five!!

I cannot believe my little girl turned five this year! Happy Birthday Naomi! Due to family travels and our travels her celebration lasted a few weeks - beginning with a surprise cake and presents from her Nana and Pop Pop and Aunt Christa, 2 weeks before her birthday.The weekend before her birthday we celbrated with friends...the requisite Carrot Cake - with chocolate cream cheese icing this year (Mark came home, saw this, and said it was time to start telling Naomi "no". Hey, when its your birthday you can choose whatever cake/icing combination you want.)There was a pinata, decorating fairy wings and crowns, and......a Teepee!!Naomi's actual birthday was the following weekend, after we arrived in Colorado. Here's the birthday girl opening her present from us - a real necklace with a dragonfly.

I am excited to think back on how wonderful it has been to be with her at home the last year and a half, and think about what a big girl she is now and all the things she will learn in the next year. We are leaving baby, toddler, and pre-school Naomi and have a Kindergarten-ready school girl.