Chloe's 6th Birthday

Chloe turned 6 nearly two weeks ago!  One reason it's taken so long to post pictures was the fact that we neglected our parental duties in picture taking.  We had a BBQ & pool party for her friends and their families.  The kids had fun swimming forever followed by taking turns on the zip line.  After swimming, zip line, and food, everyone got a chance to eat owl cupcakes.  I forgot to take pictures of the cupcakes before the party so they didn't look great by the time I pictured them.  They were still cute though and the kids seemed to enjoy them, especially the eyes.

 

Chloe got lots of great presents.  Do you notice the theme?  Owls.  For some reason Chloe loves owls and lemurs right now and owls were the easier of the two to pick for the party.  She got an owl pillow, custom owl shirt, owl dress, owl toys, lipsticks, a stuffed horse, horse reader books, money, and even a gift card to get her ears pierced.

 After the party was over we hopped into the car and went to Claire's to get her ears pierced.  She's been waiting for her 6th birthday to have them done.  Chloe's future mother in law was the one to pierce her ears (yes, Chloe has had plans to marry Trystan for the last two years).  She was brave, no crying.  Of course with all that was going on before we left, I forgot the camera next to the stairs.  Sigh.  Chloe spent tons of time in Claire's spending the rest of the gift card.  She was so excited.
Here Chloe is after getting home.  It was a long day and Chloe passed out hard.  Here she is with lots of her new gifts and even her new owl eye mask.

 

The following day Chloe and Etta went swimming with Eric and one of Chloe's new earrings had fallen out.  Of course it was closed up by the time Eric found the earring on the bottom of the pool and tried putting it back in.  We had to wait a week for the hole to close up and get re-pierced.  I brought the camera that time, but forgot it in the trunk of the car.  We are horrible parents!  Luckily Pilar had her phone camera on hand and tool a picture of that ear being pierced.  Once she returns to Spain, she can send me that picture.  For now, here is a picture of Chloe and her pretty butterfly earring.

 

She wants to be a big girl and is cleaning her ears by herself with my supervision.  She loves her new ears!