Sophie's birthday

It was a sun up to sun down and beyond birthday extravaganza on the 14th for Sophie's special day! She started the day with a floor full of pink balloons to surprise her and greet her into life as a 6 year old! Both girls had fun "wading" around the room of pink balloons in their jammies.


We all went to the Village Coffee for a pre-school breakfast. Sophie had a great big frosted cinnamon roll to start her day off right! (sorry Mrs. Schneider if she was on a sugar high for Kindergarten!)

Immediately after K, I picked her up and we went to the zoo with our friends Connor and Brooke, and mommy, Liz. Perfect day, perfect weather! What fun! The polar bears were awesome! I they entertained us the whole time. They were climbing and jumping, playing with sticks and coming right up to the glass. So fun! The kids got to ride the Carousel and see lots of other animals too.


That night we went out to dinner as a family to celebrate and ended the evening with Grammy and Papa at home for cupcakes and presents...what an exhausting, marathon of a birthday! She definitely felt celebrated :)

Birthday luncheon

Sophie's birthday is tomorrow...the big 6! In honor of her special day we had her 3 preschool buddies over for lunch, Ella, Holly and Addie. The 4 of them haven't been together since VBS in June and they had a wonderful time coloring, eating and playing together!
The lunch was a Hello Kitty theme, here are a few shots. Sophie and I made HK coloring books and tied them together with string. Their goodie cups had stickers, stamps and several other fun HK things to play with.
The moms sat inside with Sadie and Grady, Ella's little brother, and enjoyed a nice lunch, too! It was a beautiful day, low 80s and lots of sunshine! What fun memories! Happy Birthday my sweet six year old girl. I love you so!

First Day of Kindergarten

Here's our big girl on her first day of school! She was so excited leading up to this...a little nervous when the day actually arrived. She was a mixture of emotions about this new adventure, equal parts thrilled to be so big, and terrified to venture into this new big, unknown school. Our whole family walked down to school together, even Daddy made time to go! We walked her in to her teacher and said a goodbye and she became a little teary. I tried to make a swift exit, to not prolong her sad goodbye and as we were leaving her friend Ella said "hello" to her from across the hall. That brought a big smile to her face. They aren't in the same class, but they did get to play together on the playground later that day too. That was the highlight of her day she said. She said the talked on the swings, but it was really noisy so they had to shout :) She seemed confident, happy and said I didn't need to worry about her at school. She was going to be fine! Whew.

Sadie's BIG girl room

On vacation Sadie slept in a big girl bed at the cottage, the same way her big sister made the leap 3 years ago. She did very well, sleeping through the night, and when we returned home she said, "no cribby, big girl bed." So, there was no turning back. We had 2 good nights under our belt at home and made the leap to rearrange her room and disassemble the beloved cribby. I am going to miss having a little one in a crib. It marks an end of an era at the Cotts house. Kind of sad. But, what fun our little people are today!
Here are a before and 2 after shots of her room!

Glen Lake Photos

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