Birthday Party

One of Ellie's friends from school turned (3) recently, and she invited the kids from school to her birthday party at the local pool. Ellie was so excited for the birthday party, as her and the little girl are great friends, and are ALWAYS playing together.

I think what Tom and I enjoyed most about the party was being able to see Ellie interact with her school friends. We know that she is comfortable around 1 or 2 others, but we weren't sure how she interacted around her classmates. It was fun to see her playing and having a good time with all the kids from school.

She is also a lot more daring when her friends are around. Tom and I have taken Ellie to this pool 3 or 4 times this summer, and she has refused to go play on the jungle gym in the water, or go down the water slides. However, one of her little buddies at the party wanted to climb all over the equipment and go down the slides. So of course, Ellie did too. This was her first experience on an enclosed water slide, let alone by herself. She did awesome, and wanted to do it over and over again. Unfortunately, we don't have pics of the water slide, because the place is full of water canons and the like, and I didn't feel like ruining my camera. So here are a couple of photos from the website of the place where the party was.

The blue tubes are the water slides that Ellie was enjoying.

Here are a couple of picutres from the party: