Bella's 5th Birthday Day!!

Bella turned 5 on July 9th! Bill took the day off and we were able to spend the whole day together which was AWESOME!!!
It started right when Bella woke up...she was greeted with cut-out paper 5's hanging on her door and on the walls in the hallway with balloons strewn on the floor. She walked downstairs and found more 5's and more balloons and then the table decorated for a party! She was so happy!!
She opened up a few presents from Grandma, some new, super fun board games.
Then on to breakfast. We had gluten free cinnamon bread and fruit and she opened up her presents from mommy and daddy...
we got her a new wiggles t-shirt, a new wiggles cd and told her the BIG news...she was going to see the wiggles in two weeks!!!
She was so excited and sat quietly on the couch and listened to her cd start to finish twice and by the end knew most of the words to the songs!

We then got packed up, stopped for coffee for mommy and daddy, and headed to San Jose to go to the Children's museum.
It was so much fun! The kids played in the fire truck and ambulence, pretended to work in a pizzeria, played in the water area and really enjoyed the Curious George exhibit.
They had the best time and so did Bill and I. We ate lunch and then made our way back to Santa Cruz.

Bella was so excited to be five...five is a big deal to her. It meant that she got to go to kindergarten and chew gum!!! So, on the way home she had her first peice of gum!
I told her not to swallow it and just chew it until she was done then give it to me. She chewed for about 5 seconds then said, "I'm Done!" I said, "where is it?" she said that she swallowed it!!!! The look on her face was so cute...I couldn't get upset!
I reminded her that she wasn't supposed to swallow it and instead give it to me and we decided we would try it again another time!!

After we got back into Santa Cruz we headed to Bella's swim lessons and then met my mom at Bette Burgers for dinner. Bella had an amazing 5th birthday day and I am so excited to have such a wonderfully, beautiful, creative, sensitive, caring, sassy, loving, 5 year old girl!!!