The BIG 6!

I can hardly believe that my (cough cough) baby girl is 6 years old!  The time has flown by so quickly.

Maili started kindergarten this year and is loving it!  She is in dual immersion Spanish/English.  Half of her day is completely in Spanish and the other half is in English.  She's doing really well in all areas and is loving her class and teacher.  She's learning lots of Spanish too!
It's fun to see Maili grow up and see the kinds of choices she's making.  She is very spirited and it's been great to see her start to overcome some of her impulsiveness and learn to cooperate and compromise.  She is becoming a really big help to me and I'm really enjoying being her mother. I've been thinking a lot about my first few days in the hospital with her and the baby I knew then compared to the girl I know now.  The circle of life is truly amazing.
For her birthday this year she chose a "Tangled" theme and she had about 7 friends over.

cupcakes for the girlies

decorating Rapunzel lanterns

my cute Haeli enjoying the big girls

pin the frying pan on Fylnn Rider

It was a little too easy...Everybody won!

lining up for a whack at the princess pinata of which I didn't get a picture of.

opening presents

lots of good loot!

rapunzel cake!  I was lucky she didn't want a super high tower

Happy Birthday sweetheart!