Ferguson Family: Addie is SIX!

We now have a six year old! She has to use two hands now to show her age and she's pretty excited about that fact. Actually her words were exactly "I've waited my whole life for this day!".

All About Addie Year Six
(According to Addie)

Favorite Foods: Pizza
Favorite Shows: Hatchimals
Favorite Songs: Be What I Believe.
Favorite Movies: Frozen 2
Favorite Toy: Hatchimal Toys
Favorite Books: Bird Guide Book
She Can: Read, ride her bike (with training wheels), and make her own sandwiches.
She Weighs: 38 lbs
She Stands: 45 in
She Loves: Hatchimals, Pokemon, Nintendo Switch, Catching Bugs, Friends and School.
She Dislikes: The Dentist, Anything Spooky, and Sleeping by herself.

* Link to all other 'All About Addie' at the bottom

Since today is a school day we went back and forth on trying to decide when would be the best time for her to open her gifts. We weren't sure how early Danny would be at school himself but it worked out in Addie's favor because we were all able to celebrate her a little in the morning before anyone had to leave the house. I told Addie that we would save her biggest present for after school and she was both anxious and excited to wait half a day for that time to come. She was really happy to be able to open up all her other presents in the morning though. She's been in a Hatchimals toy phase for awhile now and most of her presents were Hatchimals related.

When the time came for her to leave for school she couldn't wait to see her teachers and friends and wanted to share with everyone that today is her birthday. I couldn't wait to pick her up because we had a final surprise for her. Danny had cleared some time in his schedule to make it so that he could be done with school at the time that Addie was done and I really appreciated him for that. I took the boys with me to go pick up Addie while Danny left school to run home and pick up her present that had been hidden in the garage. We both met up at the church parking lot and Addie was really confused because she couldn't figure out what we would be doing there. It actually took Danny a couple minutes longer to meet up so we just hung out around the car until he did. Danny showed up with her gift and we were able to surprise her with a new bike. She's been wanting one for a long time and Danny and I really slacked on that this last year. About a year ago close to her fifth birthday I found a purple bike while driving on my way home being sold at a yard sale. The guy gave it to me for about ten bucks and it sat in our backyard for a year waiting for us to replace the back tire. We never got around to it and knowing us we would have gone longer forgetting about it. Whoops. So we thought it would be faster to just get Addie the bike she deserved. She really liked getting a brand new bike and the fact that she gets to decorate her own helmet made it even better. We met at the church because it would give us enough room for her to ride her new gift as well for the boys to tag along on their little bikes and scooters. We did that for awhile until hunger set in. While she was at school earlier today I had gone and picked up some pizzas from Papa Murphey's so we headed home and made our dinner with the promise that if the kids all ate good we could take the bike out again for a walk around the block.

We should probably go on more walks around our new neighborhood because the kids all love it and it's good exercise that Danny and I wouldn't be able to get otherwise because of our busy schedules these days.

After our walk we sang Happy Birthday and ate pumpkin chocolate chip cookies which was Addie's request. Her birthday party is in a couple days and that's when we'll make her a cake or dessert of her choosing. After seeing her blow out her candles both of her brothers really really wanted to do it too. Addie said it was okay so we lit a candle for Hudson to blow followed by one for Grant to blow. Addie really is a good sister and seeing smiles on all of their faces is always a favorite thing for me. Today our six year old had a great birthday and she sure felt loved. Now she's counting down to her upcoming party and went to sleep easily tonight.