6 Years Old

Baylor turned 6 years old this month! It has gone by so fast and I'm so grateful for this little spunk of joy in our lives. With her birthday being the day after Halloween, it can be tricky with planning and timing, but we always make the most of it and make time to celebrate her. This year we had to move things around a bit since she wanted family over. (This year her birthday fell on a Wednesday which is our busiest day of the week in the evening.) So we ended up having a family birthday party the Sunday before her birthday. Nona and Pops came over as well as Anna and Scott's family. We had an Encanto themed party with dinner and Paige decorated the cake inspired by all the different character's powers.

On her actual birthday, we had her favorite dinner and still had some cake leftover. She took some fun party favors to school and got the cutest little headband to celebrate her. She opened up presents from us after dinner before everyone had to go to their various activities. 

On her birthday, she had so much fun at school (and most likely tired from trick or treating the night before), that she took a little nap on the floor when she got home from school. This never happens, but was so sweet and she has the most precious little face. 

Oh Baylor! You give us so much joy, silliness, energy, loudness, questions, and love!

Money jar from Nona and Pops

It took a few weeks to build up the courage, but she also got her ears pierced for her birthday! She was very nervous about it, but she is so glad she did it and loves her earring SO much.

Baylor loves to watch shows and really anything technology much to the dismay of her mother. She loves to be outside,  play games, really do anything as long as it is not by herself. She doesn't like to be alone and in certain settings is very shy, but really loves social things where there are friends to play with. She loves math and figuring out simple math problems and asks me daily how to spell a word and if certain words rhyme. She is not very emotional, but when she is sad it is the saddest little face ever. She hates hugs and kisses which of course leads me to giving her so many of them, but when she does give you a hug or kiss then you know she really means it and it just melts you. She loves to push her older sisters buttons the most (but then loves doing anything crafty or play outside with her) and is the most loving and caring for her little sister and will do anything for her. She is my child that likes to push my patience the most with her questions and asking me to do things for her, but that is more a me problem than a her problem. She says the FUNNIEST things and says words that are way advanced for her age. She is very active and busy. She is loud and will sing at the top of her lungs and dance like no one is watching. Just the other day, she yelled AMEN at the end of the prayer in sacrament meeting and we just had to laugh. She likes anything sparkly and girly. She loves to color and create and often draws on the back on her hands. She has gotten sick quite a bit this year with kindergarten, but hopefully this is the year that her immune system builds up a little more. She loves to have you create forts or things out of cardboard boxes and really get anything out for her to play with and is notorious for playing with it for 5-10 minutes and then is done. She hates to clean up after herself unless there is some incentive along with the clean up. She is honest and will tell you if the dinner you made is yucky even if she hasn't tried it or will claim something is boring before even doing it. (A little dramatic, huh!) :) But then she always make adventures fun because she likes to explore and see things and could play in the water and sand at the beach all day. She loves cousins so much especially her younger girl cousins who she could play with every day, all day if she could. She has the most stunning eyes that have a twinkle and her whole body lights up when she smiles. She has the cutest, little freckles across her face that are so sweet. She makes the funniest faces and has the best cheeser grin and has the eye roll down. We love you so much Baylor Morgan Smith! Thanks for bringing us laughter and fun all these years. I love watching you grow up and that I get to be your mom!

Just a little trip down memory lane to celebrate our big 6 year old!