Happy Birthday Soren!

Today is Soren's "real" birthday. By having his party last Friday seems like he's been living in perpetual birthdayness for the past five days, but today was the "real" birthday. And what a special day it was.

His school does a great job at celebrating kids' birthdays.

Here he is wearing his special birthday crown (at hand washing time which is the first thing they all do when they get to class.)

Then, the birthday boy gets to go into the center of the room with the other kids sitting in a circle. The teacher talks about Soren being born as a little tiny baby. The kids all talk about what things Soren could or couldn't do when he was born (they came to the conclusion that babies aren't very interesting and can't do much.) Then Soren carried the globe in a circl as the kids sang the song "the earth goes around the sun" to show the passing of a year. Then they talk about Soren being one year old and what he could do at that age. And so on and so forth until the earth goes around the sun for four whole years. Great routine.



Then Soren got to play a little wind up music box that played Happy Birthday. While he was playing it he was supposed to "think about being four years old."



And then all the kids sing happy birthday and Soren blows out the birthday candle.



We passed out the treats that Soren made for his class. Dirt and worms. Perfect for preschoolers (but embarrassingly messy. Sorry Miss Jemima!)



And he had a great time chomping on gummy worms with his best buddy Owen.



What a terrific birthday!