...and she is sooo proud to be six!
Ellie's actual birthday fell on a school day this year so we had a small (just the four of us) celebration after school on her special day (her party was on the weekend). We went to her favorite restaurant (Italian) for dinner and then came home and opened her gifts (puzzles and a robotic dog---below).
For her party Ellie wanted a green (???) dog cake for her birthday so of course I made it. But...I used fondant again and that just tastes sooo icky that I made super yummy cake pops in addition...
...we are going on the 4th (!) year of (great!) use from the Big Bouncy Thing. The girls still love it! It was definitely one of the best purchases we have made for the girls....
Ellie wanted to wear her new "six" shirt for her party....Quincy, on the other hand, wanted to wear a "beautiful dress that twirls" (???). The whole day she walked around holding her dress like she was Cinderella going to a ball. She is sooo girly.
Her FAVORITE gift was from Uncle's Mike and Eric---- the Lego Space Shuttle (my dad was an engineer on the Shuttle). Love love love her love for all things engineer-y.
When it got dark outside, the girls put their glow-stick bracelets on and went back in the Big Bouncy Thing. Above is Tim's (fun!) photo of it. Kind of neat, huh?
It was a great day...that ultimately ended at 11 pm. We were all very tired the next day....so what did we do when we woke up? We went to the Greenway and ran next to the girls as they biked the path (Tim finished his PhD comps so he was mentally "free" the WHOLE weekend---yay!!!)
