Melanie is 6

 (Or maybe I should say, Melanie has been six for quite some time now...)
 About a month late, here is the much anticipated birthday celebration.

Melanie, although eager to have all her friends, was willing to compromise and have just one, for a sleepover!  (Sleepover, by the way, is a word like homesick, not at all meaning like how it sounds-sleepovers have as little to do with sleep as being homesick has to do with being sick of home.)

6 Years old!

  Melanie's biggest wish was to have a magic wand, and then she'd make a wish that it'd be her birthday every day!

Melanie wanted to do a craft on her birthday, and her favorite kind is one with the "messy paints".

 So we made bouquets out of plastic, and it was a lot of fun to do-I was also very happy to only have one extra person to help out with this craft!

 The boys got right into it too, they didn't mind the idea of a vase of flowers, if they could paint too!

 The finished bouquets looked a little disappointing to the kids-not as flowery as they'd hoped, but still, they're not throwing them out 'til they wilt either!

On her real b-day (the girlfriend over was the day before) we had family over, and she was spoiled absolutely rotten.

 But it's hard to not spoil such a gorgeous helpful girl who is growing up so fast!

(Yes, that is Martine in the background.)