SIX!

Our beautiful girl is six today!! Can't believe it...

I was looking through pictures from her birthday party last year.  She looked so little!! 

 (Last year's rock star party... she asked for that party again this year, so that's what we are doing!) 

She has really started looking "all grown up" this year.  She is the tallest in her class and wears that title proudly. :)

We are so in love with this girl.  She can make us crazy sometimes, but usually, she is just a pleasant little human being to be around.  She is FUNNY!!  She says the craziest things, has the best timing, and keeps us laughing.

She is strong willed and stubborn.  She is bound and determined to learn how to tie her shoes and ride her bike without training wheels.

She is such an eager little learner.  She knows all of her kindergarten sight words and loves discovering that there are books she can actually read!!

She is such a little mama.  She loves babies, toddlers, and animals.  Basically, if you are smaller than her, she will try to pick you up.

She loves to be the "teacher".  Her kindergarten teacher gives her a lot of the extra papers from class.  Kate brings them home and puts them to good use.  Her closet door is covered in sight words, her alphabet chart is above her desk, and her pointer is always close by.  If she is in her room by herself, you can hear her "teaching". "A, a, apple.  B, b, ball... Now, let's do our Good Morning song".  ha!

She loves singing, dancing, and doing gymnastics.  If she had a microphone and a mirror, she could probably stay busy for three days.

She loves creating, writing, painting, coloring, and drawing.

She loves watching Full House and Duck Dynasty.  For awhile there, if she got in trouble, her consequence was getting Duck Dynasty taken away. Ha!

Like I said, she is SO funny!!

Some little Kate sayings from recently:

One day, she found a rock at school. "I found this rock at school today.  Can I put it in my collection?"  I said, "Oh, I didn't know you had a rock collection."  She said, "Well, this is my first one, but..."

On a recent trip to Indianapolis with Gran and Nanny, the kids got a little flashlight/compass thing at the Children's Museum.  In the car, Kate said, "Go south.  I have a thermos." (instead of compass... ha!)

She has a little guy in her class that she is pretty fond of. One day he wasn't there and she said she thought to herself, "Where is that excited freckly guy?"

One day, I told her, "You need a nap."  She said, "Oh, I'm too festive for a nap."

Awhile back, she told me, "There are three kinds of hot.  Hot that means cute, spicy, and heat hot."

We love you, our beautiful girl!  

She doesn't know this yet, but after school, we are taking her straight to American Girl to get her first American Girl doll!! And she has talked about possibly getting her ears pierced. ?? We shall see.  

She also requested dinner out with just Mommy and Daddy. :)