Guess what!!! Today is my birthday! Do you know how old I am?!? I'm 6 years old!

I had a Charlie and Lola birthday party. Doesn't my cake look great? Bakeries don't make Charlie and Lola cakes, but Mommy found one that took the time to look up websites and look at pictures to get an idea of how to make flowers and butterflies look Lola-ish and they did a great job. Mommy printed out mirror image pictures of Charlie, Lola and Lola & Lotta and glued them to skewers, added a 6 and voila, a Charlie and Lola birthday cake.

When my friends came to my party, we started out by drawing with sidewalk chalk and painting with sidewalk paint. Daddy is very silly and he filled up the starburst painter with too much paint and then splatted it all over everyone that was standing or sitting nearby. It's a good thing it washes out!

After drawing and painting, we headed in to the table and used Sandy Candy to make our own Pixie Stix. Mommy wasn't too sure how that would be for an activity, but we all had a lot of fun. We may even get to do it again sometime.

We tried out a different kind of game, called Coloring, Scribbling and Bouncing. It's like playing Duck, Duck, Goose, except you bounce around the circle on a hippity-hop ball. When you tap each person on the head you say Color and Scribble and they have to start coloring and scribbling. When you say Bounce, that person has to grab another hippity-hop ball and chase you around the circle. If you make it back first, it's their turn to say Color and Scribble. If not, you do it again. It's kind of a tricky game to play, but we each had a chance to be it and it was pretty fun.

After Coloring, Scribbling and Bouncing, it was time for the pinata. This year's pinata was a pull-string pinata, which was good. Last year we hit the pinata forever before it finally came open and had broken most of the toys inside. This year, we all got a chance to pull a string and on my second turn, I got the lucky string and opened the pinata.

After that, we had cake and ice cream and I opened my presents. I got really nice things.

Then it was time for everyone to go. I had a great birthday and I am so excited to finally be 6 because it means I'm finally old enough to go to first grade!

Daddy said that he could get tickets to a Loons game from work, so he and Mommy picked a day and he got the tickets. Today was the day. We had really good seats....way down close the field. I was on the lookout for Lou E. Loon. I wanted to see him and get my picture taken with him. I was more interested in that than in the game. He finally came to our section and I got to see him.

After that, I settled down and watched some of the game. I made everyone laugh because I was rooting for the other team. Baseball games sometimes take a long time, and by the time we got to the 7th Inning stretch, it was pretty late, so we left then.

I had a good time at the baseball game. I can't wait for next season. I hope we get to go to some more games then.

One of my friends can't come to my birthday party this weekend but she wanted to give me a present anyway, so I had a "birthday lunch" with my friends at the mall today. After that I went to physical therapy and then met my friends at the fair. We had a lot of fun. I rode a couple of rides and then we went to the animal barns to see the animals. While we were there, we saw our old dance teacher, Miss Kellie, and she took out one of her daughters' rabbits and let us pet it.

We went through most of the other barns, too. I got to see sheep, pigs, cows, ponies, horses, all kinds of animals

Daddy met us at the fair after work and we went and had some supper. Then I got to ride some more rides. I love going on the train.

Daddy rode the elephant ride with me because I wasn't quite tall enough to ride it by myself. Maybe next year.

I even got to go through the fun house. Coming down the slide was so much fun.

I wanted to do it again, but it was getting late and I really wanted to ride the Ferris Wheel and go down the Super Slide. We all went on the Ferris Wheel. Mommy liked it better than the one at Grandma and Grandpa's fair. The cars were more like the ones at Cedar Point and they didn't rock when we were stopped at the top. I got to go down the Super Slide twice (because the line was short). That was a lot of fun. While I was going down the slide, Mommy went and got us some elephant ears and then it was time to go home. It was a long day, but it was a lot of fun.

Mommy and I agreed that Grandma and Grandpa's fair has a lot more animals to see, but our fair has a lot more rides. I hope we get to go to both fairs again next year.

Tonight was very exciting. I got to go to my first-ever tractor pull!! Nobody was sure if I was really going to like it or not, since tractor pulls are pretty loud and I don't really like loud things. But, I wore my earmuffs and everything was fine. I loved it!!

This was the first tractor to pull. It wasn't even too loud.

After the first class of tractors did their thing, it was time for the trucks to pull. Now, those were really, really loud!! This is one of the trucks.

This tractor was named Bambi. :)

The best thing about the fair going to the fair is eating fair food. I had a yummy cheeseburger for supper. I shared a lemonade with Mommy. And I shared and elephant ear with Grandpa. Grandpa let me have some popcorn, too.

Now, I thought this was supposed to be the tractor pulls, so guess how surprised I was when these semis came out to pull. Well, some people call them tractor trailers, so I guess it counts.

This truck has mean eyes. It's called the Brockasaurus. It was my favorite. After it had a full pull it passed in front of the grandstands on it's way back to the starting line to pull again. It ended up coming in second place.

After the tractor pull was all done, we waited around in the grandstands for it to get dark. Then it was time for fireworks. I'm still really not to sure that I like fireworks, but these weren't too bad. They were loud, but it was a short fireworks show and they were done in less than 10 minutes. After that, it was time to go home. The fair was over.

It sure has been a fun weekend.

Grandpa had to go to Uncle Paul's house to help him and Aunt Coleen get some work done, but he came up with this really fun thing for Mommy, Grandma and I to do today. We went to a park that has this really neat miniature train ride.

There were a few different trains running today, so there were people coming and going all the time. There was a long line, but it moved pretty quickly.

This engine actually has a little engineer in the window.

This train needed a jump start.

The ride was a lot of fun. It went back through a meadow and then into the woods. There were bridges to go over, and even a little miniature train station. We couldn't take any pictures during the ride because the trains rocked back and for a little bit, so they didn't want people falling off, and there were some narrow areas and they didn't want people getting hurt because their arms were sticking out.

This was a neat train. It's a steam engine. I don't think it had as much power as the other trains because it didn't take as many passengers and only had two or three cars. But it had a working whistle. Toot! Toot!

Mommy and I are at Grandma and Grandpa's this weekend. Daddy was supposed to come with us, but this ended up to be his "guys fishing weekend," so Mommy and I came by ourselves. Today, Mommy and Grandma and I went to the fair. It was a lot of fun.

We went through a lot of barns and saw a lot of different things. In one barn, they had all kinds of vegetables. These are some of the strangest vegetables I've ever seen. :)

Another thing we saw was a display about bees and honey. We got to look for the queen in a hive. She was the one with the white dot on her back.

And here I am, the Alisonbee.

And in one barn, there was a big model train display. That was really cool, and we knew that Grandpa would be wanting to come and look at it on Sunday.

We went through all the animal barns and saw lots and lots of animals. I got to pet a rabbit.

I saw a few different kinds of cows.

I saw goats and turkeys

And this horse was so tall, I could have stood up underneath it. I was afraid to get too close, so that's why I was kind of hiding behind Grandma.

We even saw an elephant show.

I got to go on a pony ride. I love pony rides!

And I got to go on some other rides, too.



Some really dark clouds came in, so we hurried and went over to the Ferris Wheel. We don't have any pictures from there, because Mommy didn't want to move when we were stopped. It wasn't like the Ferris Wheel at Cedar Point and when we were stopped, any little movement would rock the car. Mommy didn't like that. I thought it was kind of fun.

On the way out, we stopped and got 4-H milkshakes. They were really good. Mommy and Grandma didn't think I could drink the whole thing, but I did.

Well, just 5 days after I lost my first tooth, I've lost my second tooth. I don't know if this one was as ready to come out as the first one was, because it bled a little when I pulled it out. But it didn't hurt. Now I have a big hole in my mouth. I don't have any more wiggly teeth right now, so after tonight, it will be a while before the tooth fairy has to come and visit me again.

And you can also see that my eye looks much better today than it did yesterday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!

Yesterday, I got a bug bite next to my eyebrow and it got a little puffy, like my bug bites usually do. Mommy put some stuff on it and it looked like it was getting better. This morning when I woke up, my eye was all swollen and Mommy said I looked like Rocky. I don't really know what that means, but the grown-ups think it's funny. My eye actually looks better in this picture than it did when I first got up this morning. Mommy took me to the doctor to have it checked out and he said it's not infected and that it may not look much better tomorrow, but by Thursday it should be a lot better. I'm also supposed to take some Benedryl to help keep it from itching.

This was me yesterday afternoon

(trying to keep my eyes open this time)

Today on the way home from the gym, I was trying to show Mommy how wiggly my tooth was, but she couldn't really see it in the mirror. She asked me how it was doing and if it was still in my mouth. I told her no it wasn't because I just pulled it out. Then I dropped it!! Mommy told me not to move and she pulled into a parking lot and got out to help me find it. We looked on my booster seat and it wasn't there. It must have gotten stuck in the folds of my shirt or shorts because all of a sudden Mommy found it on the floor. I held it until we got home and then Mommy carried it into the house for me so I wouldn't lose it again. Once we got inside, I took it to my room and put it in my tooth pillow so it will be ready for the tooth fairy to find tonight.

Here I am after losing my first tooth. The one next to it is also pretty wiggly, so maybe it won't be long before it comes out, too!

This week I went to L'il Bits Camp at the Center for the Arts. I got to learn all about putting on a play, and the play we used was "And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon," adapted from the book by Janet Stevens & Susan Stevens Crummel.

There were 17 kids in our session. On Monday, we auditioned for our parts. I got the part of Miss Muffet's spider. I brought home my script and Mommy and I worked on it that night. We read it a bunch of times and by Tuesday morning I knew most of it. My directors were very proud of me for learning my part so quickly. For the rest of the week we worked on perfecting our parts, learning where we were going to be on the stage and picking out costumes to wear. I got to wear a really cool spider costume with lots of legs, and they outlined my eyes with black and drew spider webs on my cheeks. We only had 5 days to get everything ready because today was the big day. We performed our play for our families and friends. We all worked really hard and did a great job. I had a really great time and I hope I get to do something like this again!

Here I am in my first stage role, The Spider.