FIVE!

This little chickadee...

...turned...

...today!

We have been celebrating it since Sunday!
We had our families over Sunday night for a dinner celebrating Mary Reese and Granny LuLu's Birthdays. The menu included their favorites: fried chicken and catfish, mac and cheese, creamed corn and lima beans. For dessert...

Strawberry cupcakes with pink cream cheese icing and a caramel cake!

Tuesday afternoon she traded her flip flops in for the season for these new weather-appropriate kicks…
For those of you who know her know that putting those flip flops away for the winter is HUGE! I still haven't convinced her to wear socks but at least Jack Frost won't be nipping at her toes!

This morning we measured her on the basement door frame...

...she has grown an inch since last year!

Today she celebrated with her class at school. Jody delivered them a pizza to share at lunchtime. She also took a tray of confetti cupcakes with pick buttercream icing {not sure if the 10 boys in her class will dig the pink icing but her and Bentley sure did}!

Then we bagged up Rice Krispie Treats in the shape of a 5 for her friends to take home…

Tonight she picked one of her favorite restaurants to go to for dinner…
Happy 5th Birthday Mary Reese!