Busy day for Miss Brett yesterday.  Up and at ‘em early, lots of adventures, lots of fun.  We did a lot of our usual traditions — drinking out of the Happy Birthday mug and Queen/King For The Day and hitting the bookstore for treats.  But we also tried some new things this year.

First is a Birthday Book.  Rather than giving/making cards, we got a small journal/notebook that all of us can use to write special messages to the birthday person each year.  It went over well, so I think I’ll be picking up three more notebooks in the future for the rest of us.   Luke had trouble coming up with his message the day before, but eventually got inspired just before bedtime.  This is what he wrote:

Dear Brett, I love you. Tomorrow you’re going to be seven. You’re the best girl ever.

Man, I love that kid!

We also decided, at the end of the day, to release all the birthday balloons into the wild.  They’d have been dead by the next morning anyhow, and Brett liked the idea that maybe one of her balloons would travel all the way across the ocean!

Pancake breakfast, opening gifts, building two new big-kid beds for Wogilina and Jack, Discovery Place, lunch out, loading up at the bookstore, milkshake break, blowing up and playing with a zillion balloons, brownies for dessert, and general fun all day long.  What a good day!

Here are a few scenes of a Birthday in the Life.  That sweet, sweet girl cannot possibly be seven. Somebody pinch me.