Chloe's Seventh Birthday

The day before your birthday can be a bit agonizing.  A bit like the Christmas Eve for a kid.  So we tried to help Chloe by keeping her occupied.   She opened a package that came from Gramma and a stack of cards from others who love her.

A model horse which she declared to be 'so beautiful,' a headband to decorate -- she took it outside since the markers were really fume-y, and a super soft horse blanket that she fell in love with at first sight.  Thank you Gramma!!

We went out that afternoon to the pet store to pick up two more hermit crabs since Larry is molting and poor Kermit was super bored.  Now we have Garfield (seen below on the left) and Pagoo (not available for a photo as he was burrowing under the log).

 We spent the rest of the day outside where this girl wanted her training wheels off NOW!  (She's been asking Todd for awhile but the timing was never good.)

So at 6.999 years old she learned to ride her bike!

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After declaring August 14th to be the longest day of her life (just like Evan predicted), her birthday morning finally arrived.  Seven at last!!

Chloe's "Moments to Remember" about August 15, 2013

** A huge stack of presents to open!  Seven of them!!  Plus one from Evan!
** Getting brown Sculpey clay so Dad can finally make a turkey for me!
** Unwrapping the unicorn stallion I wanted and then also getting the mare and foal!
** Opening the box with the Playmobil treehouse set in it -- that was the best gift I got!
** Having a new barn for my small Breyer horses -- a real red barn with stalls!
** Eating a huge bowl of homemade chocolate pudding --  TWICE!
** Dad finishing the real tree house outisde that night!

Being SEVEN is all about exclamation points!  Now that I think of it, being Chloe is all about exclamation points too :-)  It was a great day.