Today Scarlette turns four.
Birthdays make me a little bit emotional. I mean, not all the birthdays. That would be awkward. Just Scarlette’s, which is appropriate I think considering the day is the day that I unexpectedly had a baby at 25 weeks, one who weighed one pound, eight ounces with a grim outlook for her future and now that future is here and it holds this beautiful, amazing four year old little girl.
And so I will write more about all my feelings later and spend today just celebrating, that she is here, that she is healthy, and that she is the most radiant thing in my life.
I am so lucky to get to be this kid’s mom.
We celebrated with a party, which we planned to have at the pumpkin patch but was moved to my house due to the weather. With less than 24 hours notice. Right. (You can read that story here. It’s a good one.) I had planned to take some photos of Scarlette with all of her friends and family in front of the photo station at the pumpkin patch so instead I threw together this DIY backdrop (here’s that tutorial) and snapped some pictures with my camera phone.
And I love these, because they are so quintessentially Scarlette.
And my mother got her a Turbo cake, because that was the only thing that she requested of the party, that she have pumpkins and a Turbo cake. Every time someone arrived she jumped up and down excitedly and said “DO YOU WANT TO COME SEE MY TURBO CAKE?”
But none of that is really important. What is really important is that you see my kid’s face when she realized that she had finally gotten the bicycle she has been asking for for over a year:
Slayed me. I posted the righthand picture on instagram and mentioned that so far she can only go backwards when pedaling so she has taken to walking the bicycle around our house and ringing the bell like she’s a little Phoebe Buffay.
Light of my life, this one.
(You can see more pictures from her party here.)
