April 5, 2009

Cassie's 6th Brithday

     This week Cassie turned 6-years old.  She's had a wonderful week, 1st visiting her grandmothers, YiaYia & BooBoo, and her Aunt Lexa and Lexa's boyfriend, Brian, and all the pooches at the farm in Iowa.   She received a a DVD of the Nutcracker ballet which she watches with rapt attention interrupted by bursts of dancing, leaping and fluttering.  She is joy.
     Then, on Friday Cass had a great birthday celebration at school where she got to say her name on the school's intercom system, had a class party with cupcakes (her mom)  and Hawaiian Punch (her dad) and extra special school presents.  Cass's school friend couldn't partake in any of it, though, since he was allergic to Red Dye #5.   Poor kid.  Next year we'll remember to bring a special one for him.   
    On Friday night Cassie's friends Courtney, Phillip, Zeebie, Garrison, Bernie and little Pearlie-girlie hosted a dinner party in her honor.  Cassie and all of us had so much fun.  You can see a picture of Cass holding Pearl in the video below.  I'll bet Pearl slept hard that night.  Cassie helped Sam make her birthday cake for the party.  You'll notice that the icing job is very cute.  Cass had a tube of icing to write letters with and she began with an "I" and stopped with "love."  "I Love."  That's it.  And she sure does.  :)
    Saturday morning was the official day!  6 years old!!  She had some beautifully warpped presents from her Poppa & Grandma Melanie.  Those had her curious all through the breakfast feast.  Oh, What a good job of growing!  :)  She's has a bigger bike, a larger shoe size, a bigger clothing size... and she's spelling, writing, & reading ...she enjoys her privacy now, she completely dresses herself, an she can make (flip) pancakes... and she is just the most wonderful love-able 6-year-old we all know!  Sam and Amy have one special little girl to be proud of.  And speaking as one of Cassie's bonus people, I am so blessed to have her in my life.  
    Please enjoy this short video:


1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hi Sam & Steph,

great post. the video was very well done.

Can you let me know which music was playing in the background. sounds really cool, and I would like to find the artist out so I can hear some more.

take care and talk to you soon.

Rob