Ellie Turns 6!

High School Musical gifts from me

A baby doll set from a friend

Gabrielle Nicole Shepherd turns 6! And still as busy and a handful as the day she started crawling! Ellie has really started getting into High School Musical - and so we did a Dance Party with her friends this year. We don't have a great space in our house for dancing - so we did the party at one of the community buildings here in town. It works out well, and I don't have to clean house! We played musical chairs, limbo, and some other dancing games. She didn't have a lot of friends able to come, but I'm pretty sure she still had a great time.

Ellie is doing very well at school. We had a parent-teacher conference last week (she actually didn't have school the day of her birthday, lucky dog!) Academically she's doing great. She's also still seeing a speech therapist at school to help her with a few sounds and a slight lisp that she needs to work on. But she's still Ellie, and sometimes has problems following all the rules. Hmmm .... I wonder where she gets that?! So we are trying to work on those social/emotional issues.