Our Ella is SIX!!! Can hardly believe it. She is such a sweet, thoughtful, creative, super-smart girl.
We started the day off with Daddy's pancakes before school.
And a couple presents from Mom and Dad...
After school we opened a couple more presents and then headed to Family Dinner (or famdin as we affectionately call it). Chris' mom hosts this every Tuesday and Ella's birthday happened to fall on a Tuesday so she got a 22 person party with all the fam!
Ella enjoys hullabaloo like this. She's certainly our extrovert. My parents are in the background-they'd never been to famdin but came to celebrate Ella.
Ella chose Make your own Sundaes as the dessert and enjoyed getting a candle in hers.
One more present from Mom before bed...
Part two of her birthday was a little dinner with her school friends and cousin. She chose breakfast for dinner so we went to Mimi's Cafe and had fun with a small, "big kid" restaurant dinner.
Since we didn't have a big party I offered to make a cake for this dinner. You'll have to check out my next post for how that turned out. Overall though, GREAT sixth birthday. I'm LOVING this phase where Ella is a fun kid to chat with and discipline is taking a backseat to being able to reason through things (sometimes). It's fun to see her interests (dogs, art, and reading right now) emerge and her compassion blossom. She is so often so sweet and thoughtful with Sadie, me, Chris and her friends. In love with my Ella Bella.
We started the day off with Daddy's pancakes before school.
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| An idea of the set up for each Tuesday. My mother-in-law is a saint for doing this very week! (and dealing with the clean up when we all rush off to put our kids to bed) |
Ella enjoys hullabaloo like this. She's certainly our extrovert. My parents are in the background-they'd never been to famdin but came to celebrate Ella.
Ella chose Make your own Sundaes as the dessert and enjoyed getting a candle in hers.
Part two of her birthday was a little dinner with her school friends and cousin. She chose breakfast for dinner so we went to Mimi's Cafe and had fun with a small, "big kid" restaurant dinner.
Since we didn't have a big party I offered to make a cake for this dinner. You'll have to check out my next post for how that turned out. Overall though, GREAT sixth birthday. I'm LOVING this phase where Ella is a fun kid to chat with and discipline is taking a backseat to being able to reason through things (sometimes). It's fun to see her interests (dogs, art, and reading right now) emerge and her compassion blossom. She is so often so sweet and thoughtful with Sadie, me, Chris and her friends. In love with my Ella Bella.
