Little Gracie Lu Who is way more than two

Just a Dr. Seuss reference there in the title.

Happy birthday to my sweet girl! Six years old now.

I would have posted this yesterday (actually on her birthday), but I was up until almost midnight working on stuff for the party today. I'll get some pictures of that up in the next day or two.

It boggles my mind when I look at her sometimes. She's just turning into this long, lanky kid, with all her little elementary school friends that she runs off and giggles with on the playground after dumping her backpack on me.

She woke up yesterday morning and commented that she didn't feel like she was six years old. I explained that since she wasn't born until 5:20 in the evening that technically she wasn't six yet. This seemed to satisfy her, and by the end of the evening she DID feel like she was six. All in all I think she had a good birthday. I came and read to her class that morning (I usually do that two or three Fridays a month), Jim was home so he got to go eat lunch with her for the first time this year, I was back that afternoon with donuts for the class, and we ended up at Chuy's for her birthday dinner of choice - pretty nice because it means that in addition to satisfying her craving for Chuy's quesadillas, Mama gets to satisfy her craving for a margarita.

I know I say this all the time, but boy do I love that kid.