6 years of hugging and kissing her. 6 years of looking into her beautiful eyes. 6 years of comforting her when cries. 6 years of celebrating her when she succeeds. When she tries. When she creates. When she grows. 6 years of watching her observe, think, reflect, question, and thrive. 6 years of being in awe of her bright and brilliant mind. Of her spunky sense of humor. Of her independence and imagination and talent. 6 years of being parents to the greatest gift we've received. She is simply amazing, and we grow more and more proud of who she is, of what she does, of how she loves, of what she gives, and of how she dreams.
We woke up on the morning of October 24th with Sophie bounding into our bed at 7:01 AM, ready for her birthday weekend to continue! The previous night, we did our traditional Red Robin family birthday dinner, followed by an evening at the Spooktacular Zoo Boise event. But, on the morning of the 24th, Sophie's excitement was explosive! It was finally the day she had been talking about for months and months: her rainbow birthday party. Feeling overly sentimental, I pulled out all of our family books to show her photos from October 24th, 2009 when I was hugely pregnant with her and drove a golf cart around for 18 holes while Doug played golf (travel back in time to that post HERE). Sitting in bed, we showed her all the photos from the day she was born-- October 26th, 2009. And then we continued through each year's birthday photos, laughing at her bald head, smiling at her toddler face, tearing up at each milestone over the past 6 years. Sophie humored us for a while, but eventually, she leapt out of bed, ready for cereal and complaining that it was still 9 hours until her party started!
And party we did. We had 14 girls over for a rainbow party-- celebrating with arts and crafts, with costumes, with silliness, and with sugar. Sophie felt loved and celebrated. She was in heaven as the center of attention-- a spot she rarely takes-- and we were thankful that all of those sweet girls came to dote on our favorite girl. She was spoiled and she deserved it.
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| their creations! |
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| Who hired the entertainment for the evening?! |
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| Sophie's Daddy was the highlight of the party: his unplanned shenanigans got them SO HYPER! |
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| Look at that smile! |
The birthday weekend continued with lego building and lots of new toys and books. The weekend was centered around her. Today, on her actual birthday, Doug will join us on our walk to school, she will get celebrated at school, and then later at dance class. And the day will end with her dinner choice: chocolate chip waffles.
I love that her birthday comes at at time when she can take all of this love, joy, attention, and generosity and build up her reserves. I love that new friends from Kindergarten jumped at the chance to come to our home and party with Sophie. I love that old friends from preschool who have started different schools returned with glee to our home to reunite with somebody special. I love that Cameron (for the most part) understood that this was the Weekend of Sophie, and he was so excited to see what new presents she got. It warms my heart to know that my 6 year old girl could look around our bonus room and see 14 girls (and 1 brother) who came to celebrate her. Who came because they, like her mommy and daddy, are glad she was born. Who came because they appreciate her.
We all are blessed to be a part of this sweet, perceptive, smart, and creative individual's life. We all love her big time.
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