SIX!!

Happy Birthday to my big girl (posted over a week late)! I just can't believe I have a six year old - a first grader! I look back at pictures of her from the beginning of the school year, and she has just grown up so much. I am so proud of her!

Sophia is the best helper, and she does a million things to make my life easier all day long. I'm so glad she is my oldest. She is also me in so many ways, it is scary. I have often realized suddenly, and shockingly, that my own attitude needs adjustment and that I need to by much more mindful of my tone of voice, when I see my little mirror interacting with her siblings or baby dolls.

Sophia is finally reading, and it makes me so happy. I am (or used to be ha!) a huge reader, and I just knew once she got the hang of it, she would find joy in it too.

Sophia is so creative, I love how her mind works. We played a game for family night last week, where everyone scibbles randomly on a piece of paper for about 10 seconds, and then passes the paper to the person next to them. That person then has to take their scribble and turn it into something. We all turned zig zags into crowns or swirls into galaxies, but Sophia's drawings always came with an elaborate story. Yesterday I asked her when she came into our bed, because none of us could remember her sneaking in. She said she couldn't remember either, and probably some little trolls came and moved her. The trolls brought their little dog, which explains why the iced tea in the fridge smelled like a puppy (another mystery from that morning). We have to watch her, because sometimes she uses her imagination to scare the pants off her sister!

On the morning of her birthday, Sophia got pancakes and six pink balloons. And for dinner her favorite - spaghetti.

Her party was last Saturday and a pottery painting place called Painted Pig - we love it there, but haven't visited as often as we used to now that Henry is mobile!

This was the first time Sophia has seen some of her friends from Kindergarten, and it was so sweet to listen in on their little conversation. They said things like "I've been thinking about you."

and "I've missed you SO much!"

They had a blast!

Happy Birthday, Silly Goose!