Chaney is 6

Happy 6th Birthday Chaney!!

Dear Chaney,

How can it be that you are 6?  You have now lost as many teeth for each year that you have been alive.  In fact, your top teeth have been out so long that I'm not sure that they are going to come back....just kidding.  This year has been exciting to watch you grow physically, emotionally and spiritually.  We have started to memorize bible verses and you are doing a fantastic job of learning them.  In fact, when your brother gets in trouble you often quote the verse to prove a point.

This fall you will start kindergarten and you are so very excited.  Each day you work on your "pretend" homework and write everybody's names.  You have become quite the little writer.  You do very well writing your upper case letters and numbers.  Lower case is not really fun for you and so you don't practice it very much.  You have learned to count to 100.  You do a good job of sounding out your letters to figure out what words say.  You love to draw and play with playdoh.  You are one little packrat.  You save everything....EVERYTHING!  Sometimes I have to sneak into your room when you are gone and get rid of junk.

You have a mind that doesn't forget a thing.  When someone mentions something you don't forget it.  You love to ask questions and we can see you just soaking everything in like a sponge.  You love to go outside and let your imagination take over.  Your younger siblings love to play with you and you do a great job of inviting them in and including them in (almost) all that you do.  You like to help cook dinner or any meal.  You like to help clean.  You love to swim and ride bikes.  You love make-up, in fact you have more make-up then I do.  You love to play beauty shop with your little sister.

Chaney, as you go to kindergarten this fall our hope and prayer is that the spirit of Jesus will shine through you.  We hope that you are kind to your fellow classmates as you are to your siblings.  We hope that not all of your innocence will be lost and that you will remain sweet and love your family and Jesus unconditionally.  Chaney we love you so much.  We are so grateful and blessed to have a good leader in our oldest child.  We love you so much!  We can not wait to see what this next year has in store for you.