Aria's 5th Birthday Party at Gymnastics

Aria had a wonderful party with a group of her friends at Bellingham Bay Gymnastics. Everyone got to play on all of the equipment and play some games with teacher Olivia. After about an hour in the gym the whole party moved into the classroom where everyone shared cake and then Aria opened her gifts from her friends. Video taken March 16, 2013.

Here are some photos from the party

Aria's 5th Birthday Celebration at School

Aria's school has a very nice way of celebrating each child's birthday. Since Aria's birthday is this coming weekend her class celebrated it today and her Mom and Dad got to attend. Here is the video of her class celebrating Aria's birthday. One of the traditions in her class is for the child having a birthday to donate a book to the class library. The last couple of minutes of the video show Aria sharing the new book (called Otis and the Puppy)  with her class. Video taken March 15, 2013

And here are some photos from the day at school. Photos taken March 15, 2013

Sitting in circle with her classmates

Aria got to place the date on the class' calendar 

Heading out to playtime outside Aria's classroom

Here are the photos that Aria showed here class during the birthday celebration. The first one was when she was 6 days old and the rest are when she was 1, 2, 3, 4 and almost 5 years old, respectively.

6 days old with 4 pairs of loving hands

One year old

Baking with Mom at 3 1/2 years old

The artist at work at 4 1/2 years old

Practicing violin a few weeks before Aria's 5th birthday

Aria, the Monkey Girl

For the first time, Aria decided to try to go all the way across the monkey bars yesterday. Luckily, I had my phone ready to capture the moment when she made it across. Video taken March 9, 2013.

She has been doing some more tree climbing lately. We had a nice day last Sunday and she spent some tree time with her neighbor friends. Photo taken March 3, 2013