Golden Birthday!

FINALLY, the real birthDAY arrived for Ava--6 years old on the 6th of April!
A rarity...she was fast asleep when we barged into her bedroom, singing "Happy Birthday"!
(Many of you will also find it interesting to see her hair so straight--her entire top layer is straight and the bottom layers get curlier and curlier!)

She wanted to open 1 gift before school and the bottom left photo here is her looking at a special birthday book all about her and the time between her 5th birthday and her 6th birthday! She also found a pretty cool big girl "toy" sitting at her place at the breakfast table--a big kid scooter!

After school, we had a treat at Cherry On Top in Neenah and even made a fun Easter chick craft after we enjoyed our ice cream!
Before dinner, we let her open her gifts and took some sibling love photos.....there was nothing but love flowing from all 4 kiddos on Ava's birthday!

Ava's facial expressions as she opened each gift were priceless. She was so excited to receive each item we had picked out for her. It was precious to watch her excitement!

The Cake:

Ava usually does not enjoy cake...and about a week before her birthday, she drew a picture of what she wanted for her birthday cake, a letter for the Cake Fairy. The Cake Fairy even left a note for Ava, telling her that she had copied the picture (what looked like a golden sandcastle!), even making the castle "tilted" like the picture. The cake was actually 6 layers tall; no wonder it was tilted! We had to remove the cake pops during the day...we were fearful that their weight would crash the cake while Ava was at school!

It was a super fun day....a terrific day to celebrate the birth of little Ava!