Happy 6th Birthday ELLA

E- Eager to learn
L- Loving
L- Loyal
A- Adventurous


For Ella's birthday I thought I would recap this past year. Not long after Ella turned 5 she started school. Ella was very excited to meet new people and learn. The achieved both of these things. On her first day of school she made a friend, from a different class, and kept that friend throughout the whole year. Ella made lots of friends, mostly boys, and even a few 1st grade friends. She is also reading at a first grade level, she caries a book everywhere with her. She is also doing first grade math. She got a packet of Math to take home for the summer to keep her going and to introduce new things for next year, she finished the 100 page packet in one week!(Gets those smarts from her daddy) Ella loves spelling! (she didn't get that from me) She loves to write notes to family and friends, and can spell words that I have to think hard about.

Ella found her first crush this year also. For a long time she said she was going to marry Leo, from the Little Einsteins....Not any more. Ella had lots of boy friends, but none were talked about like Davey. They were inseperable at the Zoo. She hopes he is in her next class! We do not!!

Ella has really grown up this year. She is my big helper, and likes to be the other mother in the house. Along with bossing her siblings around and trying to put them in time out, she is also helpful in the kitchen and cleaning the bathroom. Here she is helping her cousin take a little nap when he was not feeling well.

Becoming more independent was also on her agenda this year. No more help in the pool. She just jumps right in. Ella is a very determined big girl. I can't help picking out cloths anymore, she wants to do her own hair, including what length it is.

And here is the proof for that. She was so good about letting me doing her hair. She looks so grown up. She has allot of things she wants to do this year. Of course they include learning more and making more friends. She also wants to sew a dress for herself, make a dinner all by herself. I would like her to finish memorizing the Articles of Faith. (She has the first 5 down)