On May 4, Lolo and Lola arrived. The cousins and Uncle Matt and Aunt Lucy followed on Friday. The girls played hard for 36 hours....pretend, dolls, board games, dress-up...
time at the pool....
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had a surprise visit from Elsa & Pocahontas,
and then the morning of Mother's Day/First Communion arrived.
It was a wonderful way to spend Mother's Day!
Bea woke up so excited, counting the minutes until First Communion. When I asked her what specifically she was most excited about, she said "the gifts." I thought she meant presents, but, shame on me, she meant her role of bringing up the offertory gifts at mass:
After the main event we headed to a restaurant in RI with about 30 family/friends to celebrate the communion along with Bea's birthday and Mother's Day. The group included friends Sofia and Jillian, whom we don't see enough of!
Bea and Raina apparently snatched my phone for a minute while waiting for the food to arrive!
We all sang Happy Birthday and ate a delicious carrot cake that Bea had chosen from the bakery:
and got a group photo before everyone headed out....What a wonderful memory!
The next day, Bea went on a field trip to Southwick Zoo. Here she is with her teacher and best buddy:
A couple days later we said goodbye to Lolo & Lola, who we'll see next in August:
(Random photo...my girl is into requesting specific hairdos each day...this day was her first fishbone/fishtail and she's so happy her hair is long enough for one of these!)
On Friday, Samm came over after school and I took the girls to see a local play of Cinderella. Samm slept over and the next day they attended the Share-a-Day program at Sister Mary Kathleen's convent. They had a blast and when they returned we went swimming and then home for more playing, pizza, and a movie.
For some reason, Bea insisted she wanted to see this in black and white!
And here she is, bright and early on her birthday morning, an official 8-year-old. We had such a special moment while everyone was still sleeping, looking back on the past year and listing all the changes/accomplishments/exciting things that happened while she was 7. I can't wait to see what the next year brings!
That night when Samm's mom picked her up, Bea shockingly announced that she was "tired of Samm" and it was time for her to go home. We obviously followed up on this and she clarified that she was just wanted to be done with "all the fuss fuss." It's been a wild and wonderful and busy couple weeks, and our girl reminds us now and again that she's always ready to get back to our fairly simple, fairly quiet life as a family of three.
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