In just five days, Pumpkin Doodle turns five years old! As cliche as it sounds, the past five years have flown by, and I am both excited by the new stage we’re entering and sad that my baby girl is growing up so fast!

Pumpkin Doodle loves birthdays. She pretty much starts counting down to her next birthday the minute the last one is over. For weeks now, she’s been asking me to make a birthday chain. I kept putting it off because I didn’t want to cut out a bazillion strips of paper, until I finally decided to just let her cut the strips herself (duh!).

Strips of paper, ready to be stapled together.

I started by drawing lines on several pieces of paper so that she could practice cutting along the line. Once she was done, my mom helped her staple the loops together.

It’s just about the easiest project ever, and she comes skipping down the stairs every morning to tear a loop off and count those that remain!