Six

Today my baby turned six. I knew it would happen someday, but just like everyone always says -- time definitely flies... She's always been an old soul, she's sometimes quite a challenge, but really she's smart and funny and likes to help out. She's started school, she reads on her own and is learning to write (although her spelling is horrid). Sometimes she can be dramatic and get her feelings hurt, other times she is super tough and she always can do anything she puts her mind to. She is "The Bean" and I wouldn't trade her for anything!

Last weekend we had a group of kindergartners over to celebrate...


Yesterday we had dinner with the family...


and today we went to Chuck-e-Cheese.


After all that excitement, I'm thankful that birthday's only happen once a year :)

Twirling...

J is my hair twirler. She twirls when she's tired, she twirls when she's sitting still. When I'm fixing her hair and ask her how many pony-tails, she'll say "two so I can twirl". She even twirls her braids!

Last night, she was super tired because we'd spent the day at Grandma and Grandpa's farm. She had fallen asleep in the car on the way home. At 11 pm or so I heard her whimpering and making noise. She came in my room and her thumb was stuck in her hair. Her hair was all wind-blown and tangled from the day and the twirling got her all twisted and caught up.

This is the second time she's managed to get stuck -- it's soo adorable!