Evelyn 6!!

 Where is time going! Jumping on from Matthew's 11th we making cupcakes for a 6 year old!

 Actually Melanie did all the work. :)

 Fresh strawberries as per the birthday girl's request.

 Classic irritated Evelyn look. :o

 Evelyn still offers her help in the kitchen, and thinks sitting on the counter is acceptable.

 She loves books, and will let anyone read to her!

 Her siblings love her too! Daniel made Evelyn a wooden cruise ship. Look, it's Opa and Oma's cruise ship!

 And a combo gift, the wardrobe from Nathan, Doll clothes from Melanie, and hangers from Matthew to spoil this child!

 On a separate day that week we went to a very big indoor playplace and Evelyn got to enjoy running around and jumping to her heart's content!

 The pit of squishy cubes was not easy to climb out of, especially with both your socks still on!

 (there was a very stinky gross stash of them lost in the bottom, apparently)

 There was a climbing wall too, kinds fun to try...but scary!!

 There were several levels of difficulty, but we stuck to the basic one. Just to see what it was like!

 The bowling alley was a pain. Half the alley wasn't working at all, and the ones that did had gimpy setups that you couldn't change. But we rolled a few balls anyways (gotta get our entrance fees worth of items tried! ;) )

 The laser tag area was fun to play grounders on (but the tag equipment...that was a joke!)

 We had lotsa fun zipping around!

 Evelyn was too small for the harnessed climbing wall (and wouldn't want a stranger roping her up anyways) so she enjoyed the mini one in peace.

 She's a monkey all right!

Everyone was happy when Evelyn got an influx of Lego people. She loves to hoard all the people, and does more play and less building...her siblings don't feel it's fair for her to keep all the minifigures! (finally, a gift that made everyone happy :p )

We are thankful for Evelyn. She might be taken to be a quiet reserved person, but don't be mistaken! She is also full of spunk, energy, ideas, fun and NOISE.