Celeste's First Day of School

Celeste is now in first grade. She is in Mrs. Campbell's class, she has only been there for one day, but really likes it! I took her to school yesterday for her first day and got pictures of her sitting at her desk. She knows a few of the kids in her class and her friend from the neighborhood is in a different class, but they can see each other at recess, so she is happy. She's 6 years old and in first grade. I can't believe she's getting so big!!

Celeste's 6 year old Birthday Parties

This year Celeste requested to have a birthday party with her friends and I knew that if I tried to have a party with her friends and our families altogether that we would all go crazy, so we split the day into two parties. Some may think I was crazy, but it actually went really well. The yard was clean for the day and all of the food was purchased before hand for both parties, plus I did all of the baking the few days before and we were set for the day and didn't have to try and keep the yard clean for more than one day (which is hard with a dog!!)

So, in the morning, we had Celeste's friends over for a party and lunch. We had a treasure hunt/pirate themed birthday party, so I made a treasure chest birthday cake. I googled "treasure chest cake" and found pictures of different cakes I could make. We had the elaborate one for the friends party, but I also had to make a cake for Celeste's friend who is lactose intolerant. She can't take pills or anything, so she just can't have any dairy. So, the pink cake was made especially for her. We had a treasure hunt around the neighborhood for the kids and a coloring contest that we ended up forgetting about and no one won anything! Oops!! She has some great friends who really know her because she absolutely LOVED all of her gifts.

Then, for the family party I made a little more simple cake for Celeste and Grandma Marla because their birthdays are only two days apart, so we celebrated them together. It is still a treasure chest, but I just baked candy bars into the cake instead of making two seperate cakes. We had so much cake from the morning party left over that we made everyone eat huge pieces of cake because at the family party so we wouldn't have any more left over cake! I don't know if everyone ate all of their cake, but I didn't care as long as it wasn't left in my house!

I think everyone had fun at both parties and Celeste enjoyed her day, so that was really all that mattered! I posted the pictures of her parties in a slide show on the side, so take a look there for the pictures of our 6 year old!