A few weeks ago Adelle called me a "silly ass." After me looking shocked for a couple of seconds she said, " what? It was in Peter Pan." Oops we've been reading that aloud and I didn't even think about what I was reading to her.

Then last week Adelle was sent to her room for something, I can't remember what, and when I told her to shut the door she said out loud to herself, "shut the **** door." Again after I looked shocked she said, "what? Harry Potter said it." She has been reading the Harry Potter books to herself in bed.

I talked to Joel about it and he said,  " I guess we have to tell her all the words she can't say."

Very funny. Instead we talked about asking what words mean before using them. (she didn't know about those words) and trying to figure out whether the word was a good one to use or not from the context of the reading.

We didn't even have to send her to school to learn to swear. We gave her books to teach her!

is my two front teeth! Adelle lost 4 teeth in one week, including both of her top teeth, a child's dream! At least I remember wishing both of my top teeth would come out at the same time.  She looks so cute! It is hard to believe someone this cute could torture her little sister the way Adelle does. One day we found these notes posted all over the house.

On Thursday we had a birthday party for Adelle's 6th birthday. We chose an Artist theme for the party for two reasons, first we found a lot of fun activities with that theme in the party book my MIL gave me and second Adelle wants to be an artist when she grows up. The 6 kids we invited were suppose to come as their favorite color but on the day of the party Adelle refused to comply with her own party rules. No surprise there. This is the relay where you had to paint something specific on the wall with water and then run back to your team.

Pin the beret on Adelle. Joel made the picture of Adelle and the hats. I chose this photo because you can see Adelle's gum in her mouth. In our family you can have gum at 6 and since her birthday she had pretty consistently had a piece of gum in her mouth. We are hoping the novelty wears off soon!

Our pinata! Adelle and I made it. It was sort of a pig but not colored. Just made with pieces of paper that the girls had colored on. We didn't have any trees to hang it on so Joel came up with this contraption between the palm tree and our porch. It worked great and we got rid of all of Adelle's old halloween candy!After a photo treasure hunt that happened too fast for picture taking we went inside to make salt dough bead necklaces. The only problem was that Joel had put the cake in the oven due to lack of counter space. I turned the oven on to bake the beads and forgot about the cake until the oven was 300 degrees!

So this photo is of a slightly melted Christmas tree. Adelle requested this design complete with the specific color and placement of ornaments. Joel did a great job decorating it!

Adelle has been growing her hair out for months with the plan of cutting it and donating it to Locks of Love. Today was the big day. She loves her new look and thinks that people will not recognize her now. I asked her if she thought that her hair might turn blond if she cut it off and she thought maybe it would. She loves looking at herself in the mirror, which we are afraid might cause more drama attacks. She is going to love all the attention she gets at first with the new look but might be disappointed when people still know it is her!

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