Eden turned 6! She is getting ready to start the first grade. Despite being one of the youngest kids in her grade, she does very well in school. At the end of kindergarten she was well above the benchmark in all categories. Eden is a smart girl. She is also very funny. She is making us laugh all the time. Eden is still my best eater. She isn't picky and she will try almost anything. She loves gymnastics. She also likes sports& dancing. Almost everything Eden tries, she loves. My challenge with Eden is limiting the activities she is involved in because she wants to do everything. She is determined and really tries her best at all she does. Eden still gets hangry (super angry when she is hungry). Eden is tall for her age. We measured her when she was 2.5 years old and doubled it. If this theory is correct, she will grow to be 5'10". Eden loves fashion. She is picky about what she wears. She says what she wears has to be cute. Her cute and my cute sometimes aren't the same. I will pick her out something to wear but sometimes she won't wear it because it's "not cute enough." She loves getting new clothes. She mostly gets hand me downs from Addison so when she does get something new she is so excited! Eden's favorite thing to play is American Girl dolls. She likes to change their clothes and dress them up. She also loves board games. Her favorite board game right now is probably headbands. Here is Eden's birthday questionnaire:
This year Eden looked through some pictures of birthday cakes online and this is the cake she chose to have me make her.
Eden woke up bright and early the morning of her birthday. She was excited to open her presents.
She got a baseball bat, hot stamps (glitter stamps that she can stamp in her hair. She sees them on TV commercials and has wanted them for a long time), a barbie rupunzel movie, a game called sorry, a piggy bank, and some money to spend at the Mall of America when we go in August. Grandma Marilyn also gave her spending money for our trip, and my parents gave her a new shirt and a neat paint set. Marshall bought her an iPod (used but new to her) while he was in Boise. He got it so she can download games to play for our airplane ride when we go to North Dakota. That was probably her favorite gift.
Last year Eden had a friend birthday party, so this year was a family party year. However, Marshall was out of town all week and I didn't want to take all the kids somewhere by myself so it turned out to be half and half party. She invited her friend Ali over. Eden, Ali, Addison and I went to outer limits and dinner. I got a babysitter for Ty and Willow.
Ali and Eden had a blast at outer limits.
Addy spent most of her time playing the deal or no deal game.
We made a quick trip to the dollar store (my kids favorite store) before heading to dinner. The girls found some fun treasures there too. Eden chose to eat dinner at Panda Express. There happened to be a ballon guy working there so the girls got all sorts of cool balloons!
After dinner, we came home and had cake and icecream with Ty.
Eden had great day. I was exhausted when the day was over. 😀 I missed having Marshall with us but it was still a great day to celebrate Eden. We are so happy she is in our family!
