Carly is 6

Sometimes it's hard to believe that Carly is only 6.  She is such a big helper, she reminds me of everything.  I kinda feel like she's my personal secretary.  Her preschool teacher last year, told her that she's the 'honey in the middle' since we have 5 kids.  She loves it... she likes to tell me that she's special because she's the honey in the middle.  

Carly has always been a little bag lady.  She used to carry 3 or 4 bags around, while pushing 3 or 4 dolls in her stroller.  Over the years she's downsized.  She's now down to this one bag and only occasionally pushes her babies around.  She takes this bag EVERYWHERE.  I've put my foot down with church and school... but it comes with us everywhere else.  She usually has a snack or two packed for any emergency.

 Instead of talking about her favorites like our usual birthday tradition, I thought we could just take a look through her bag.

The purse

contents- 7 pencils
                broken camera
                hand sanitizer
                sandwich bag with gross floam from the library
                sandwich bag of beads from broken necklace
                flashlight
                broken phone
                post its
                perfume
                address book
                necklace
                4 mini purse/wallets

mini pink purse contents- 7 chapsticks
                                          bubbles
                                           name tag from preschool
                                           5 facial tissue box tops (now it makes sense why they were all opened)
                                          Beau's notebook (sorry, Beau, I guess she 'found' it)

mini leopard purse contents- nothing

mini tan purse contents- 8 dollars ( not quite sure how she acquires all her money)
                                        coins
                                        mini white purse (empty)

mini lady bug purse- quarter

Going through her bag made me laugh.  She's so funny, and she wants to be all grown up.  She has saved me on occasion when I needed a pen, band aid, and money.  Yes, I borrowed money from my 6 year old.  I told her to keep one of Isaac's binkis in there but she thought it was weird.

For her birthday, she wanted to eat out at Pizza Pie Cafe.  So the Saturday before, we went out to eat.  On the night of her birthday, we had some family come over for cake and ice cream.

She picked cereal for her special breakfast

 It was love at first sight when she saw this cake at Costco.  It was so heavy that it broke in half.

  

 She loved her little outfit from her Dawson grandparents.  She couldn't wait to wear it to school the next day.

She is all about coloring with her personal art set from her Jenkins grandparents.

So grateful for our Honey in the Middle!