{6} All About The Girl

And I present to you a post about my Little Darling. It's been a good week or so of events and adventures.

We ran out of time (and nice weather) to take any "formal" year 6 photos but I think we captured her spirit with what we have. Fun on a playground!

One of the local aquariums had a Scout day. Patch and all! One of her troop members was even there.

Then all of a sudden, her first birthday event was here! She decided she wanted a party to celebrate with her friends from school and her troop. We hosted at a local indoor play area. I'm so not going to lie... having two parties and two sets of gifts... I went cheap on the cupcakes: boxed cake and canned icing (to which I added 1/4 cup powdered sugar to give the icing holding power). I got a big star tip and decided to try my hand and actual decorating. I was very pleased with the end result and the cupcakes tasted pretty good too.

I have always felt intimidated by even thinking about using piping bags and tips!

When I sent invitations out, I was expecting zero kiddos to show up because of the weird day and time. Even if it was the start of the holiday... you never know.

By two or three days before the party, we had a list of about a dozen kiddos planning to show up. And we even had quite a few siblings come too! Right after the party, we headed to Gramma's house.

Ivy has a huge heart for puppies and her favorite is Boo. We had to make a few specific things, but she was really happy with how we were able to have a Boo party!

Giving her banner a kiss!

All day long, folks!

Boo on her cake!

That dimple is a vortex. It's beautiful.

Ivy has been complaining that things were blurry. I figured it was inevitable that she'd get glasses... but I thought it would be a little bit later in life than 6 years old. I got mine at 8. She seems to currently be farsighted (as opposed to nearsighted like me and her father). The eye doctor says she only needs to wear them for reading and computer stuff up close, but not all the time. So my concern is that she won't wear them when she needs to and will wear them when she doesn't need to.

Her Nana (my mom) works in an office that sells glasses. And this kiddo is super excited to finally get glasses with a prescription in them. She's been picking up and buying fashion glasses. Silly girl!

I think she looks so adorable!

And then, it's Thanksgiving! Started the day with The Parade.

Here she is, dancing with the Rockettes.

It's really difficult to tell here, but she put down name cards at each place setting. I was about to ask her, but she did it all on her own! She even invited us all to go around the table and say what we were thankful for.

I'm thankful for YOU my little Bug. Thankful for YOU.

With all of the events of this past week, it's time to shut down!

And no, I refuse to participate in black Friday. And today I heard the atrocious term: gray Thursday. Um, NO.