Kyla's turns 6

We threw Kyla's party together at the last minute but it ended up being great. It has been a few years since we were able to do a friend party for her. She was pretty excited and came up with this great idea to have her party in the morning and have all the guests come in their pajamas and have breakfast. Everyone thought it was a great idea. She planned out all the details and gave me the menu. We would have German popovers (with custard, syrup, and fruit syrup), sausage, fruit, muffins, juice, and chocolate chip cookies and ice cream later on. Here Kyla is helping me make muffins for the big day.

 

We have started this new tradition of putting a bunch of balloons in the girls room before they wake up in the morning on their birthday. We tried stuffing Kyla's bed by putting up a blanket on the outside. She didn't appreciate balloons suffocating her while she was sleeping and kicked all the balloons out by morning. But the girls had fun loading up the bed and playing in it that morning.

 

It was nice for mom and dad to have the party in the morning because we could stay up as late as we needed to to get everything done. Things like a super duper, daddy decorating job. We didn't get to bed till 2 am, but it was fun to make birthday magic.

 

 

Daniel also made this fun bowl out of the watermelon rind to put all the cut up fruit in. The girls thought it was the coolest thing ever.

 

You can imagine how much of that fruit 8 little girls ate, but that's O.K. it was a great leftover. The girls at her party were: Madeline, Ashley, Nora, Kyla, Ella, Marian, Addie, and Myka was there somewhere. I am glad we kept it small it is so much easier to handle.

 

What's better at a birthday party than playing with balloons and dancing?

 

We sent Kyla on a scavenger hunt (another late night Daddy project) to find her big present - the bike. All the girls had a great time running around the house to find the clues. She was very excited to have a big bike. She has been too big for her old bike for quite awhile. Nora was even quite jealous, which surprised me, and thought she needed a new fancy big bike too. I told her once she learned to ride without training wheels we would talk about it. Mom and Dad were excited about our totally last minute CraigsList find. It looks brand new! And yes those are pink cowboy boots that she is proudly wearing with her pj's on. Cringe. Sigh. Smile.

 

Kyla has been so much fun to have as part of our family. She is very good at playing with her sisters and especially loves taking care of her little brother. Her attitude in life is like a switch and either things are the worst or the best. She can be the best, most awesome helper around the house and actually knows how to do more jobs than Nora since Nora was gone all day at school. Kyla has an amazing sparkly smile and captivating laugh. She is always bouncing, jumping, running, and climbing. The only downside is she often is getting hurt in the process. We are hoping to get her in gymnastics this fall to work on her coordination. Kyla is reading quite well and is fully ready for first grade. Her kindergarten teacher actually suggested skipping first grade and going into second. Since she has a summer birthday and is one of the youngest in her class anyway, we didn't think it was a good choice for her. I am going to be sad to have her gone all day this year and not have my big helper around. WE LOVE YOU KYLA!!!