Birthday celebration at preschool

Baikal and Rybolt both had birthday celebrations at their preschool recently. The celebrations are so sweet that I thought I would share. During the usual storytime, the teacher tells the story of how the child was in the heavens and wanted to visit earth so they were sent to a kind mother and father. Before leaving the heavens the child was given special gifts. Then, they have the child walk around a candle (representing the sun) for every year they are old. During this time, the parents list out the fun things that happened during these years. At the end we all sing happy birthday and the child blows out the candle. It is such a wonderful reminder of the journey that we are all taking together as a family. We all are sick today, so I used the time to make the kids little posters of their birthday celebrations to put in their rooms.