Surprise Party Prep

This morning was the first time Paige played soccer in the cold. It actually snowed last night, and was still pretty chilly this morning.
Chillier than I thought at first. Paige ended up wearing a big pair of Grama Trudi's gloves while she played, and Neely used some socks.
The other team was short a few players, so they had to borrow a few from our team. Paige's coach sent Paige in to play for the other team right away, and I could tell immediately that Paige wasn't happy about it. She wasn't really hustling, and just looked sad. Within a minute she started to cry, and they got her a sub. I went over to see her and she still had tears on her cheeks and wouldn't tell me what was wrong. But I think she thought her team was getting rid of her. Sad.

She recovered quickly though. We tried to go to Home Depot for the kids workshop thing they do, but we were too late, they'd already closed it. But they sent us the kits to use at home.

Now Paige is over at my Grama's, and we're getting cakes baked, a pinata made, and the house cleaned for our 3rd and final party of the week. Tomorrow is Paige's 5th birthday. Last week I suddenly remembered that a few months ago Paige asked me if her next birthday party could be a surprise party. Ha. So funny. So I told her we decided to do her party on Monday, and Jess is going to take her out on a "birthday date" tomorrow, so that he can bring her home and we can all be waiting to surprise her. So funny, a surprise party for a 5 year old. I'm SO excited to give her her bike!