Friday, January 18, 2013

Six!

My little girl turned 6 this past November.
She is quite the spirit! She knows what she wants and she'll do whatever it takes to get you to do it for her ;)
She does not.like.school. Every morning she wakes up and tells me over and over that she doesn't want to go. That it's too long. But every day when I pick her up she tells me how much fun she had.
I thought about switching her to half-day, but I found out that when they do that, the cut out all of the fun stuff (PE, Music, Art, recess, and Lunch). So, we talked about it. I told her her options and she decided that she'd rather go full day...even though it was long. She didn't want to miss out on all of the fun stuff!

She has two best friends: Abby (her cousin) and Gabby.
She sings and rhymes all of the time.
She also still loves doing anything creative: coloring, drawing, painting, whatever.
She has a TON of stuffed animals...we might have to take some to the zoo...but she loves, plays with,  and remembers each and every one.
Some days her brother is her best friend. They can spend the entire day playing and exploring outside together.





This year Joel and I had decided to do Christmas a bit differently. Instead of a lot of little presents that would be left for dead in a few weeks, I decided that my kids would get one big present and then we'd use the rest of the money to do a service project (animal rescue, water for Africa, etc).

Earlier in December, my daughter was so sad about not getting a lot of toys and she told me that she didn't want to help people get water, she wanted TOYS! After some more discussion (and more tears), I told her that she could decide...I knew that true to her nature she would give it a lot of thought and make the choice that she thought was best.

A lot of people told me I was crazy (and to be honest, I was nervous!).  However, we talked about it the next day and she told me that she wanted to use the money to help animals
I love my girl and her sweet spirit and loving heart.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013