harmony's birthday part 2: the art party

I am lucky to have Harmony. She nearly did not make it into our family.

When I was delivering Harmony the birth went bad very quickly and she was born by an emergency caesarean. It all happened so fast that Matt missed the birth and after the medication wore off I was just so grateful that I had a healthy baby to hold. As a family we are thankful that we have her as part of our lives.

Harmony has been waiting and waiting for this birthday to arrive. You see, we have a tradition for the girls that when you turn seven you can choose if you want to have your ears pierced. Harmony made her choice at the start of the year and it has been a long wait for her so that she can be like her older sisters.

We set off for the appointment to get her ears done. Harmony was a little scared and after listening to the stories of what happened with her sisters I am amazed she went ahead with it! Liahona came along for support and was a good distraction for what was to come.

marking the right spot

Well, the first ear went great...the second not so good. I don't know what happened but the second hole is way too close to her head and we are going back in 4 weeks to mark another hole! What a nightmare is all I have to say! We will be numbing the ear and doing everything we can to make it as pleasant as possible...aarrgh! not a happy mum and daughter...

The rest of the day turned out great. We had our art party, cake and games.
Here is something that I have learned about having a family party:
With a kids party where other kids come over, I find they are generally intense and only go for a few hours ~ a family party is exhausting and tiring ~ it goes on for the whole day!!!

Harmony really wanted a cake with My Little Pony on top so I bought a cake top to add to our homemade one and she was one happy girl!

Some of the characters that were drawn during our art party!

In keeping with my tradition of writing reasons why I love my kids according to their birthday age ~ here are seven things I love about Harmony:

1. I love her smile. She has the biggest, brightest smile. Her whole face lights up!

2. I love that she is brave. She can sing in front of a large audience and sing in key.

3. I love that she is in touch with her feelings and will often say when her feelings have been hurt.

4. I love that she has always had a great desire to learn and to read. She is so happy now that she can read for herself and loves discovering new words.

5. I love that she loves to write and express herself. She puts together stories and plays, complete with words and drawings.

6. I love that she wants to speak up ~ in a family of many children she is not afraid to share her opinion and make her voice known.

7. I love that she is in my life. That she reminds me to be silly, to have fun and to chill out every so often.

Harmony did not want a photo shoot for her birthday so here are some recent snaps of her:

 

School holiday dress up - pirate day!

Singing at the school performance - being Dorothy.

Baking cookies at home.

Happy Birthday Sweetheart, enjoy your year!