Happy 6th Birthday Isaac!!

Happy SIXTH Birthday, Isaac!

My baby boy isn't a baby any more...he is SIX. Being six means standing tall and running fast and telling jokes and desperately trying to learn how to snap. Six is getting angry at your mom sometimes, and helping your friends and being in love with your kindergarten teacher. 💗 

It's not five any more. Five year olds need to take naps every day. Six years don't need naps...they just fall asleep on the couch at 6:45. Five year olds have to stay in the cart at the grocery store, six year olds get to scan and help bag the food. Six year olds can write their name and know all their shapes and colors and numbers. SOME super special six year olds are even at the top of their class in knowing all their letters...upper AND lower case.  (YES!) 

Six is a year of growing and responsibility. It's discovering your limits and finding ways to surpass them (in a good way). It's swimming across the pool by yourself and finally figuring out the bike. It's a BIG accomplishment being SIX. I think this boy of mine is going to do just fine. 

Turning six involved a full weekend of celebrating: A special lunch at school on Friday, a swim party with friends on Saturday, and going out for ice cream on Sunday. I want to take FULL advantage of celebrating my boy. I want him to know that ESPECIALLY TODAY he is loved, he is wanted, he has a hope and a future and throws of people who want to celebrate exactly who he is. Too many babies enter this world without joy, without wonderful expectation. And sadly I suspect when my little chromosomally-enhanced boy made his first appearance six years and an ocean ago,  there was a gasp of hopelessness instead of a prideful burst of joy.  I have set to reverse that! So we will celebrate!  And celebrate BIG on this earth the way I know our Heavenly Father celebrated when Isaac was born. So happy birthday my little man. YOU. ARE. LOVED. 💖

Waking up a six year old!

Happy Birthday lunch at school

Birthday sundae!