A letter to Camdyn on her 6th Birthday!

My Dearest Camdyn,

“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. When you’re not happy, skies are gray...”

Today you are six. I’ve been telling you for a while that I needed you to stop growing up so fast and you always respond with “But Mommy, my body just can’t help it!” The years just keep flying by!

Your fifth year was quite a milestone achievement. You went to Kindergarten! Your teacher was Mrs. Brumbelow and you adored her. You came home every single day excited about learning. Your biggest accomplishment was learning to read this year. You are an incredible reader and I love how you devour books. You love all books written by Mo Willems and have a love for Junie B. Jones.

This year I have watched as you have grown into a beautiful and compassionate young lady. You are kind to others. You believe in fairness. You are hardworking and independent. You love dresses, high heels, nail polish, purses, the color purple, and anything else girly. You play dress up every day. We got your ears pierced a few weeks ago and now you have started the countdown until you can wear earrings that will match all of your outfits. Speaking of outfits, your closet has far surpassed mine! You love to dance and you LOVE to talk. I adore that you want to tell me about everything that goes on in your life. You wear your heart on your sleeve; you get your feelings hurt easily, but you are quick to forgive. You’re afraid of a lot of things too, but you claim that when you are 6, you’ll be braver. We shall see if this bravery extends to dogs anytime soon. You make me laugh every single day. You’re my absolute favorite.

Camdyn, you are my heart, my precious treasure. You bring me such joy. I am so thankful that the Lord blessed me with you. You have such a wonderful future ahead and I pray every day that the Lord will use you in a mighty way. I pray you would be a light to others in this incredibly dark world. Jesus won’t be the popular choice and it won’t be easy to stand firm for the Lord as you grow up. Choose to be different Camdyn!  

I am so proud of you and I love you to the moon, sweet Camdyn.

Love,

Momma

A letter to Camdyn on her 6th Birthday!

My Dearest Camdyn,

“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. When you’re not happy, skies are gray...”

Today you are six. I’ve been telling you for a while that I needed you to stop growing up so fast and you always respond with “But Mommy, my body just can’t help it!” The years just keep flying by!

Your fifth year was quite a milestone achievement. You went to Kindergarten! Your teacher was Mrs. Brumbelow and you adored her. You came home every single day excited about learning. Your biggest accomplishment was learning to read this year. You are an incredible reader and I love how you devour books. You love all books written by Mo Willems and have a love for Junie B. Jones.

This year I have watched as you have grown into a beautiful and compassionate young lady. You are kind to others. You believe in fairness. You are hardworking and independent. You love dresses, high heels, nail polish, purses, the color purple, and anything else girly. You play dress up every day. We got your ears pierced a few weeks ago and now you have started the countdown until you can wear earrings that will match all of your outfits. Speaking of outfits, your closet has far surpassed mine! You love to dance and you LOVE to talk. I adore that you want to tell me about everything that goes on in your life. You wear your heart on your sleeve; you get your feelings hurt easily, but you are quick to forgive. You’re afraid of a lot of things too, but you claim that when you are 6, you’ll be braver. We shall see if this bravery extends to dogs anytime soon. You make me laugh every single day. You’re my absolute favorite.

Camdyn, you are my heart, my precious treasure. You bring me such joy. I am so thankful that the Lord blessed me with you. You have such a wonderful future ahead and I pray every day that the Lord will use you in a mighty way. I pray you would be a light to others in this incredibly dark world. Jesus won’t be the popular choice and it won’t be easy to stand firm for the Lord as you grow up. Choose to be different Camdyn!  

I am so proud of you and I love you to the moon, sweet Camdyn.

Love,

Momma

A letter to Camdyn on her 6th Birthday!

My Dearest Camdyn,

“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. When you’re not happy, skies are gray...”



Today you are six. I’ve been telling you for a while that I needed you to stop growing up so fast and you always respond with “But Mommy, my body just can’t help it!” The years just keep flying by!



Your fifth year was quite a milestone achievement. You went to Kindergarten! Your teacher was Mrs. Brumbelow and you adored her. You came home every single day excited about learning. Your biggest accomplishment was learning to read this year. You are an incredible reader and I love how you devour books. You love all books written by Mo Willems and have a love for Junie B. Jones.



This year I have watched as you have grown into a beautiful and compassionate young lady. You are kind to others. You believe in fairness. You are hardworking and independent. You love dresses, high heels, nail polish, purses, the color purple, and anything else girly. You play dress up every day. We got your ears pierced a few weeks ago and now you have started the countdown until you can wear earrings that will match all of your outfits. Speaking of outfits, your closet has far surpassed mine! You love to dance and you LOVE to talk. I adore that you want to tell me about everything that goes on in your life. You wear your heart on your sleeve; you get your feelings hurt easily, but you are quick to forgive. You’re afraid of a lot of things too, but you claim that when you are 6, you’ll be braver. We shall see if this bravery extends to dogs anytime soon. You make me laugh every single day. You’re my absolute favorite.



Camdyn, you are my heart, my precious treasure. You bring me such joy. I am so thankful that the Lord blessed me with you. You have such a wonderful future ahead and I pray every day that the Lord will use you in a mighty way. I pray you would be a light to others in this incredibly dark world. Jesus won’t be the popular choice and it won’t be easy to stand firm for the Lord as you grow up. Choose to be different Camdyn!  

I
 am so proud of you and I love you to the moon, sweet Camdyn.

Love,

Momma

A letter to Camdyn on her 6th Birthday!

My Dearest Camdyn,

“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. When you’re not happy, skies are gray...”



Today you are six. I’ve been telling you for a while that I needed you to stop growing up so fast and you always respond with “But Mommy, my body just can’t help it!” The years just keep flying by!



Your fifth year was quite a milestone achievement. You went to Kindergarten! Your teacher was Mrs. Brumbelow and you adored her. You came home every single day excited about learning. Your biggest accomplishment was learning to read this year. You are an incredible reader and I love how you devour books. You love all books written by Mo Willems and have a love for Junie B. Jones.



This year I have watched as you have grown into a beautiful and compassionate young lady. You are kind to others. You believe in fairness. You are hardworking and independent. You love dresses, high heels, nail polish, purses, the color purple, and anything else girly. You play dress up every day. We got your ears pierced a few weeks ago and now you have started the countdown until you can wear earrings that will match all of your outfits. Speaking of outfits, your closet has far surpassed mine! You love to dance and you LOVE to talk. I adore that you want to tell me about everything that goes on in your life. You wear your heart on your sleeve; you get your feelings hurt easily, but you are quick to forgive. You’re afraid of a lot of things too, but you claim that when you are 6, you’ll be braver. We shall see if this bravery extends to dogs anytime soon. You make me laugh every single day. You’re my absolute favorite.



Camdyn, you are my heart, my precious treasure. You bring me such joy. I am so thankful that the Lord blessed me with you. You have such a wonderful future ahead and I pray every day that the Lord will use you in a mighty way. I pray you would be a light to others in this incredibly dark world. Jesus won’t be the popular choice and it won’t be easy to stand firm for the Lord as you grow up. Choose to be different Camdyn!  

I
 am so proud of you and I love you to the moon, sweet Camdyn.

Love,

Momma

A letter to Camdyn on her 6th Birthday!

My Dearest Camdyn,

“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. When you’re not happy, skies are gray...”



Today you are six. I’ve been telling you for a while that I needed you to stop growing up so fast and you always respond with “But Mommy, my body just can’t help it!” The years just keep flying by!



Your fifth year was quite a milestone achievement. You went to Kindergarten! Your teacher was Mrs. Brumbelow and you adored her. You came home every single day excited about learning. Your biggest accomplishment was learning to read this year. You are an incredible reader and I love how you devour books. You love all books written by Mo Willems and have a love for Junie B. Jones.



This year I have watched as you have grown into a beautiful and compassionate young lady. You are kind to others. You believe in fairness. You are hardworking and independent. You love dresses, high heels, nail polish, purses, the color purple, and anything else girly. You play dress up every day. We got your ears pierced a few weeks ago and now you have started the countdown until you can wear earrings that will match all of your outfits. Speaking of outfits, your closet has far surpassed mine! You love to dance and you LOVE to talk. I adore that you want to tell me about everything that goes on in your life. You wear your heart on your sleeve; you get your feelings hurt easily, but you are quick to forgive. You’re afraid of a lot of things too, but you claim that when you are 6, you’ll be braver. We shall see if this bravery extends to dogs anytime soon. You make me laugh every single day. You’re my absolute favorite.



Camdyn, you are my heart, my precious treasure. You bring me such joy. I am so thankful that the Lord blessed me with you. You have such a wonderful future ahead and I pray every day that the Lord will use you in a mighty way. I pray you would be a light to others in this incredibly dark world. Jesus won’t be the popular choice and it won’t be easy to stand firm for the Lord as you grow up. Choose to be different Camdyn!  

I
 am so proud of you and I love you to the moon, sweet Camdyn.

Love,

Momma

A letter to Camdyn on her 5th Birthday!

My Dearest Camdyn,
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. When you’re not happy, skies are gray...”

How is it time for me to sit down and write this letter to you once again? Today you are five. You start Kindergarten in a week. I wonder how it is even possible that another year has passed and now my baby girl is going to go to school with me! You are so excited about being five; apparently, this is the year you’ll “finally be growing up!”

This week, you and I have been reminiscing on the past year together and what you’ve enjoyed the most about being four. You told me that the best part of being four was going to preschool and wearing lipstick (clear lip gloss that makes you feel quite fashionable. Your words). My favorite part of four though is how mature you’ve become. You are kind and compassionate. You are so loving. You are deeply sensitive and in-tune with others’ emotions. You believe in fairness and will fight on behalf of someone else if you believe they’ve been wronged. You are independent and confident. You are giggly, girly, and full of sassiness (you are quick to point out that you are the “good sassy” because the bad sassy will land you in trouble!) You adore dress up, but won’t hesitate to play in the mud. You love to sing and are still obsessed with the Frozen song “Let it Go.” Thank you Disney for making that song. Not. You are so funny and I belly laugh at something you say almost every day! You are an amazing kid and I am so blessed you’re mine.

This year you went to preschool and you surpassed my expectations. You picked up right where you left off in 3 year old Pre-K. You’ve memorized 26 bible verses arranged in ABC order. You also have the 23^rd Psalms and the Lord’s Prayer memorized. You know the books of the Old Testament and New Testament in order. You can sing the Star Spangled Banner and you say the Pledge of Allegiance with absolute patriotism. You have tons of sight words memorized and can blend sounds. Your love of beginning reading warms my teacher heart! I am so proud of how hard you work and how you soak up new knowledge. Your inquisitive mind is constantly making connections. When you learn something new you will say, “So Mommy, what you mean is that _____ is the same as _______.” I LOVE how your mind thinks. You are very mathematical. You love to count by fives and tens. You are obsessed with time. You want to know what time it is and how much time is left until the next activity. You are going to adore Kindergarten and I can’t wait to watch you learn this year.

Camdyn, you are such a treasure. You bring me such joy and I am so grateful that the Lord has entrusted me to be your momma. As you grow up, my prayer is that you would fix your eyes on Jesus. For King and Country sing a song that plays on the radio currently. It’s called “Fix My Eyes” and you absolutely love singing it. These lyrics hold such a deep longing for me for your life and I pray that these lyrics would be engrained in your heart.

 Love like I’m not scared
Give when it's not fair
Live life for another
Take time for a brother
Fight for the weak ones
Speak out for freedom
Find faith in the battle
Stand tall but above it all
Fix my eyes on You

Jesus won’t be the popular choice and it won’t be easy to stand firm for the Lord as you grow up. Choose to be different Camdyn. Choose the narrow path, the one that isn’t the popular path. Choose to live your life beautifully for the Lord.

I am so proud of you and I love you to the moon, sweet Camdyn.

Love,

Momma

 

Here are this year’s top 5 funniest memories of you this year.

1. Your vocabulary is incredibly large and you love to use new words, even if you haven’t gotten the pronunciation down pat. You say Lose-ually for usually, diz-austed for exhausted and uh-larious for hilarious. My absolute favorite though was the day you learned to use the word situation. You told me that you needed to talk to me about a “Serious shituation”. I nearly choked on my drink! We promptly had a lesson on how to say situation correctly.
2. Then of course is a conversation from 6 am:

C: Mom, when can you paint my fingernails?

Me: How about this afternoon?

C: No, we're going swimming, remember?

Me: Oh yeah! How about tomorrow morning then?

C: I think that will work, but I have to go downstairs and check my schedule.

Me: (trying to keep a straight face) Ok, you just let me know if your schedule is free.

C: Ok, I'll let you know.

3. After talking with you one day I asked you how you got to be so smart. You told me you learned how to be smart at Preschool. I asked you if I should go back to school there so that I could get smart too. You said, “Oh mom, you should have done that years ago!”Me: Oh yeah! How about tomorrow morning then?
C: I think that will work, but I have to go downstairs and check my schedule.
Me: (trying to keep a straight face) Ok, you just let me know if your schedule is free.
C: Ok, I'll let you know.
Me: Oh yeah! How about tomorrow morning then?
C: I think that will work, but I have to go downstairs and check my schedule.
Me: (trying to keep a straight face) Ok, you just let me know if your schedule is free.
C: Ok, I'll let you know

4. I asked you to pick your toys up out of the living room floor. You responded, "I have to pick everything up right now???" I told you to just pick up the big stuff for right now and then went back to loading the dishwasher. When I walked back in the living room, you had a measuring tape out, measuring your toys. I asked you what on earth you were doing. Your response: "I'm measuring all of my toys so I know that I only pick up the big ones."


5. There is one cartoon I won’t let you watch called Spongebob. I think it’s dumb and have solid evidence that it will rot your brain. I’ve told you this so many times that one day, while flipping through channels, you landed on Spongebob and immediately threw down the remote, covered your ears and screamed, “I feel a headache coming! I don’t want to have my brain fall out.”

Come with Me, Under the Sea! Camdyn's 4th Birthday Party!

Camdyn's 4th birthday party was so much fun. The day after Camdyn's 3rd birthday, she woke up and asked for a mermaid party for her 4th. She is so my kid! I immediately consulted pinterest for all things mermaid and under the sea. Camdyn decided to have teal and lavender as her main colors and the theme for this year's party began to take shape.

First up, we have Camdyn's super cute invitations.

Of course, Camdyn is wearing her obligatory matching outfit with star fish clip to boot!

Our house was magically transformed into "Camdyn's Lagoon" with these fun decorations.

 

 

 Our party food included submarine sandwiches, sea snails (pigs in a blanket), sea shell pasta, fruit, star fish treats, clam cookies, shark bait (jello with swedish fish), and ocean water to drink. Sadly, I didn't get a ton of pictures of the food, but these few give you the general idea.

 

Here is Camdyn's mermaid cake! I LOVE how it turned out.

Happy Birthday Dear Camdyn...

After we indulged in the cake and cupcake goodness, it was time to open presents.

Once the whirlwind of opening presents had commenced, the kids all changed into bathing suits and headed outdoors to a slip and slide. Between the slip and slide, kiddie pool, trampoline, bubbles and chalk, there was plenty of fun for the kiddos. The adults hid out in the shade because it was H.O.T. outdoors!

As guests left, they signed a message in Camdyn's birthday book, keeping with our tradition. Then they picked up their Thank You cookie that I baked to look like a Sand Dollar. They have tags that say "Thank you for swimming with me under the sea! Love, Camdyn".

I must say that this party was by far my favorite to plan. I love how it all came together! Camdyn had a great day and is looking forward to next year's party already. The day she woke up on her 4th birthday, she announced she was now almost 5! :) Time to start planning next year's theme! Happy Birthday, Sweet Camdyn!