Piper's 5th Birthday!

On November 7, 2017 my girl turned 5! She woke up early before school and found a pile of presents waiting for her on the table!

We took cake pops to school and shared them with all of her classmates and when she got home from school Mimi surprised her with a bouquet of flowers and a special present!

That evening we had a party at the local pizza parlor with her friends! 

 Lauren, Tracy, Tina

 Piper and BibiAnna

The following photos were taken by my amazingly talented friend Tracy Swift!

 Charlotte, Piper, Willa

 Katy and Lauren

 Diella, Piper, Bibi

 Vivi

 Willa, Hattie

 The most awesome asian coconut cakes! Five for 5 years old!

Happy Birthday Piper!!! Big Five!!!

Five Years Old!!!

I can't believe my girl is five. She is force to be reckoned with! She wanted to tell me what to write about her this year, so we did a little interview. 

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite animal: Cheetah

Favorite food: Raviolis

Best friends: Charlotte, Willa, and Luke

Favorite class at school: Library

What do you want to be when you grown up: A vet for baby animals, even baby dolphins

Piper has really adapted to the move to Myanmar. She loves being in Pre-K at her new "big kid" school. She has a ton of friends at school and at our apartment building. She eagerly goes to ballet and tennis lessons, and she is in the pool nearly every single day! She is learning to add and subtract and can read quite a lot (when she wants to). She's a mama's girl sometimes...a Daddy's girl sometimes...depends on who will give her what she wants :) 

She's a great kid, I can't believe we've been a complete family for five years already! We love you kiddo!

Birthday Party!

We had Piper's birthday party at Cest La Vie, an awesome kids cafe and playground. It was princess themed, of course, and she had a great time playing with all of her good friends!

Our big four year old princess!

Ces't La Vie provides all the decorations and set up, it was perfect!

Piper showing how old she is now during the Happy Birthday song

There was a splash pad but we all forgot the swim suits...so we just let all the little american kids run around in their underwear, much to the amusement of the south africans!

Happy 4th Birthday Piper!

Four years old already! How did this happen so quickly?!

This little girl has a ginormous personality! Here are a few of our favorite things about Piper:

- Her favorite things are princesses, kitties, doggies, riding her bike, dancing, and toys.

- Her favorite colors are purple and blue.

- She loves kisses and hugs, especially family hugs where we squish her between us!

 - She can count to 50.

- Her cousin Owen is her "baby brother", her cousin Kailey is her "big sister", and her friend Luke is sometimes her brother, sometimes her sister.

 - She is becoming quite a good ice skater.

- She isn't 100% water safe now, but she can definitely swim. She's learning freestyle and backstroke.

- She likes to make up her own songs - both new words to known melodies and entire new songs!

 - She had her first dance recital/competition last month and she was very excited to have danced on a stage.

- She is very strong willed, if she wants to do something she will find a way to do it, if she doesn't want to do something, she will loudly tell you so!

- She likes to talk about all of her grandparents back in America.

- She still likes to become either a cat or dog when asked to do something she doesn't want to do.

Thonga Birds

Another reason Thonga Beach was an awesome place to celebrate my big birthday..they took us on an unplanned birding excursion, just because we asked them too. The above water wildlife was just as great as the below water wildlife!

White Fronted Plover

Black-winged Stilt

White Breasted Cormorants

Little Egret

Collared Pratincole

Saddle-Billed Stork

Cape Longclaw

Juvenile Sandpipers

Greater Flamingos