Super Six!

A belated blog Happy Birthday to Hayden who turned 6 last week. She may have already lost seven teeth, but she's only turning 6 years old. But such a grown up, smart, amazing, six years it is! We had a great time celebrating her birthday.

To start, we made cinammon rolls for her birthday which is what she asked for. Then she went off to her final day of gymnastics camp for the morning. Molly and I picked her and Eliza up at noon and we went off to lunch with Popop at her favorite giant Asian buffet place. She enjoyed her plate(s) of rice, chicken legs, mandarin oranges, jello and one piece of a sushi roll before digging into ice cream for dessert. We had fun checking out the turtles in the fountain too!

For dinner, we made pasta carbonara (her choice again) and had dirt cake for dessert. I tricked her good by putting 'sand' on top of the dirt. In fact, I tricked her a little too good as she started to cry thinking she wasn't getting the dirt cake she had requested. Luckily it was delicious and she ate it all up! I don't know if it was the missing teeth or what, but she definitely had real trouble blowing out her candles!

summer dirt cake! (don't worry, plenty of chocolate goodness below.)

do you get more wishes if you blow them out one at a time?

 And of course, she had a great time opening presents after dinner. The princess dress we got her was such a hit, she put it on immediately and has worn it some almost every day since! She was especially pleased to get the art set which was the only thing officially on her list for quite a while!

Molly helped by testing how much weight the gifts could support.

Money to shop at the arts and crafts store -thanks Aunt Katie!

Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne. A perfect present from Grandma!

a princess dress that fits, and it's  extra long and flowy!

the art set, look at that grin

Over the past year, she's conquered kindergarten, reading, swimming, the tooth fairy and thumb sucking - she is pretty darn amazing! I can't wait to see what she'll do as a 6 year old!