J'ai 6 ans!

July ended with 6 candles on a cake!
I was quite excited about my day... and since it's basically my day every day, the cake and candles made it different!
But it all began in France where my uncle and cousins thought it would be fun to give a piggy bak that you can only open by breaking with a hammer...in 10 more years. I filled it up with secret messages.

 They also seemed to know me well enough after 4 days and thought I might like a water gun. "Might" like? You mean I LOVED it!

 At my last day with Papi and Mamie I got to blow my first set of candles.

Every year, Maman has tried to come up with a cake that matches my liking of the moment. This year, I am into Ninjago and Star Wars so we both figured out a plan and I helped: we made two round cakes: one dark brown representing the Death Star and one yellow one representing Tatooin, another Star Wars planet.

Then we made Sand troopers using marshmallows. Marshmallows are made of pretty bad stuff Maman says, but they are mmmm, so good.

And of course I was spoiled as you can see by the loot I got from Papi and Mamie, Grandpa and Grandma, Uncle Olivier and my cousins and Papa and Maman.

And I am very, very happy with all my gifts. As you can see, there were a lot of books; that's because when I am not working on my  title for  "Most annoying kid on the planet", I spend hours with my books.
I had barely opened Grandpa and Grandma's present of a set of Ninjago books that I was already avidly reading one of them: my first ever chapter book in English and I devoured it and the 4 others in no time.

I also got this cool fort kit from my friends in Indiana. That was a great idea for a gift and i went to work right away!

Today, a week after my actual birthday, it was my birthday party! Was I excited ? That is an understatement. Maman is very happy that my birthday happens to be during the Summer because at least she can send the wild crowd outside. And since I had planned to have a water gun fight, the hot sunny day was another thing that was welcomed.
My friends seem to have different social skills that I do though: while they seem to play together, I tend to either jump on every body or take a book and read while they play.

And if somebody needs to be goofy, you can count on me... and on my friend S.

Now, we had a lot of fun with the water gun fight. We ran to the park that is about 10 minutes away from our house. Papa drove the car containing the supply of water we would need.

And soon we were chasing each other and getting super wet, super fast! We did teams and the team split that got us all happy is when we decided to do kids against adults, which meant 4 kids against Papa and Maman. Ha, that was cool!  Good thing we had our water guns on the way back home because it was hot, hot, hot!

After a great lunch, I got to have more cake and candles and then we spend the afternoon building and creating with cardboard and all kind of materials that we glued with hot guns and not water guns this time!

Voilà! Birthday time is over and being 6 is as much fun as being 5.

I'll leave you with a bunch of pics that show you that I keep Maman entertained when she tries to take my yearly pic with Winnie the bear...