Guess WHO is 6?

Our big girl is 6 now! Look how awesome she can pull an outfit together! This year she had a friend party. She wanted it to be a bird party. It really was amazing how many things we had around that went along with the theme. I have to say I do amaze myself sometimes.

These are the bird balloons we bought at my favorite store "Big Lots" (AKA Pic-n-Save). We had a lot of compliments on those. It was really Martha Stewart's kit but they were pretty cool. We let the kids each take one home for a souvenir.

Here are the fun cupcakes we made. The idea came from a really fun book called, "Hello Cupcake".

We did an egg hunt. They were supposed to be the Mommy or Daddy bird looking for their baby bird eggs. (Took advantage of the post Easter sales.) The eggs were filled with candies and stickers. I think Tati loved it more than everybody else. She was pretty convinced it was her birthday.


We did this one game with a rubber band bird (airplane) that they had to glide and land in the nest (bowl). Surprisingly only one person was able to get it into the nest but they had fun trying. They stood on our stairs to give them the height and then the nest was at the bottom.

Chloe with one of her BFF's, Linnea.

Chloe and Greg had a special date on her birthday day since her party was on a Saturday. He picked her up from school and took her to one of our family's favorite places, Ikea, for lunch. They had a great time.

Here is a special "Top 6" Edition, from her Daddy:

Chloe is six and here are six things great things about Chloe:

1. She loves to draw pictures then give them away to friends and family. Especially cards. She could easily put Hallmark out of business if she were allowed to just sit and make cards all day (and most of them are pretty darn cute and creative).
2. Being a big sister is not a job, it is her life. She loves it. She loves being Tati's best friend. Sometimes she also loves being Tati's second mom, but we are working on that. She helps Tati learn new "tricks", talks to her and gives her advice all the time and is always teaching her about everything she knows.
3. She is ready to be a grown up. She wants to do (and we usually let her) grown up things. Wash the dishes, fold and put away her clothes, clear the table, answer the phone, etc.
4. She is a very tender child. She doesn't like intense or scary scenes in movies. She is concerned for people when something bad happens to them and wants to help them (usually that means making a card for them). She just wants life to always be full of sunshine lollipops and unicorns surfing on rainbows - and who can blame her?
5. Chloe loves receiving and giving surprises. Even at an early age she would hide things behind her back and have you close your eyes to surprise you. She gets super excited for other people and is bursting when she is watching them get a surprise or open a present. She loves to be an accomplice in springing a surprise on somebody - she is really good at keeping secrets when she is supposed to.
6. Learning is one of Chloe's favorite past times. She is always talking about things she learned on her field trip to the space and science center here in Edmonton. Or the little fact she learned on a tv show. I can remember watching a geology show on tv about ice dams during the ice age and catastrophic flooding. She shooshed me when I tried to ask if she liked the show or not because she was listening so intently.

Man, time is flying by so fast. Hopefully by her next birthday, she'll have some more teeth grow in. Poor girl.