Our Baby is "6"!

I can't believe that Brooklynn is six. In so many ways, she is much older than six. But then in many other ways she is very much still our baby. This year was a family party, cake and ice cream with aunties, uncles and cousins. Her birthday was on a Sunday so the day was mostly filled with church and meetings. We woke up early to open presents and eat some birthday pancakes. This was new as we don't have a tradition of birthday pancakes like a lot of people do. I decided to give it a try. I made her name, the #6, a birthday cake, a candle, a cupcake, hearts and some other random things. I was so impressed that Brooklynn actually knew what every pancake was except for one. After church we had some family over for cake and ice cream. Thank you to everyone who helped to make her birthday so much fun and thought about her with cards, gifts and phone calls!I haven't decorated cakes in a long time. Brooklynn had seen one of these Barbie cakes somewhere and told me that's what she wanted for her birthday. I have made a few before but it's been awhile. Brooklynn was very specific and wanted purple cake, pink frosting and purple ice cream. The first batch of cake I forgot to add the purple food coloring and had to make another batch. Then I ran out of pink frosting and had to make another batch of that. Then I made the dress too small so I had to improvise with the leftover cake batter I had put in round pans. I think it turned out ok but it definitely was not my best work. By midnight I called it good and figured Brooklynn wouldn't care. As for the purple ice cream, we had grape floats...that's as close to purple ice cream as I could figure out.
Cute side note: Brooklynn was so excited about her birthday and the cake and all the excitement that she forgot to make a birthday wish. She came to me the next day and asked if it was too late. I asked her what she what she had wanted to wish for and she said, "You to have two baby boys in your tummy!" Phew! Good thing she forgot to make her wish!
Brooklynn had a pretty long wish list for her birthday but one of the interesting things she asked for was a framed picture to match the other kids. I have these frames in our hallway for each of the kids with 3 black and white photos of close-ups. We made these when McKenna was a baby and by the time we had Brooklynn I had kind of forgotten about it. At one time I had picked out some pictures and bought a frame but I never printed the pictures and framed them. I guess she was feeling left out. I didn't think she noticed. Now she is an official member of our family!

Happy Birthday Brooky Boo!