Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!

Today my sweet girl is 8. Yep, 8. Not sure when or how that happened but it's true. Alex and I went and had lunch with her today. It was soooo much fun. I always LOVE to have lunch with her. It's so much fun to see her friends and I always enjoy the chance to get to know the paras that work with Carly a little better. I had the chance to see her in action. She is quite independent at school. She was washing her hands and with very little prompting (mostly just verbal prompts at this point) she got paper towels out of the dispenser, dried her hands and threw away the paper towel. After that, she went to her locker (Her para (for lunch) Pam opened the locker. That's still tricky for her.), got her lunch out and proceeded down the hall to the lunchroom. Then I found out that all year she has been drinking her milk out of the carton without a straw. It was a big day. We had macaroni and cheese, kielbasa, green beans and bananas for supper with cupcakes for dessert. Gotta go help the birthday girl get into her jammies. Sweet dreams.