An EIGHT year old

Today is my sweet little Ashlyn's 8th Birthday. I'm so happy for her and love her to pieces. I must be the luckiest mom out there to get to have her has my daughter. I hope you have a wonderful day Ashlyn and a fun party next week. And then in a month, you will be baptized. I'm so excited for you!

Here are some things you have to say today.

What do you think about being 8? It's cool.

Do you feel different? Not really. Pretty much the same as yesterday.

What's your favorite color? Purple

Who are your best friends? Grace, Lourdes, (the other) Ashlynn, and of course Leah

What's your favorite movie? Kung Fu Panda 2 and Smurfs

Are you excited to start 3rd grade this week? yes, but I don't like homework

What's your favorite thing(s) to do? Play with my American Girl Doll (Julie), play polly pockets and my little ponies. I also love to play on the Ipad.

What's your favorite food? macaroni and cheese

Tell me about your baptism day? It seems exciting and fun. I can't wait but I'm a little bit nervous because everyone is going to watch me. But I get to be baptized with my best friend Grace, so that will be fun.

What are we doing today to celebrate? Going to the Aquarium and then to dinner at Chilis (her choice). Are you excited? (head nod in the affirmative) What are you going to order? Pizza and rootbeer. What do you want for dessert? um....what do they have at Chili's for dessert. Ice cream maybe.

Tell me about the party you are going to have next Saturday? There is going to be a magician and we are going to have a pinata. And there are going to be pet bunnies that we can play with. And balloon animals. Are you excited for it? Yeah.

What's your favorite game on the Ipad? Plants Vs. Zombies. What other games do you like? Doodle Jump, Arno the Hunter, Cookie Doodle, and Angry Birds

And just for fun. You know how people take monthly pictures of their babies with the same doll to show how much they have grown....well, I never was on top of things enough to do that. But I can top them. Here's Ashlyn with a little pink pig that she got when she was born. 

(Ashlyn was actually about 6-8 weeks old in this picture)

And here she is with the same doll today (at age 8). Yup, definitely bigger!

And just for fun, here are a couple of newborn pictures of Ashlyn. She was so itty bitty. Sleeping so peacefully. 

But really she spent most of her time looking like this. 

(And that outfit, yes, it now can fit that little pink pig in the picture above. Ashlyn was probably only 4 1/2 pounds in this picture).