I am a little sad today, but at the same time I am also very proud. Today is Cole’s 6th birthday. Tomorrow is his last day for Pre-K and he is really excited about going to Kindergarten next year at Northwestern Elementary. So my reason for being sad is that there are days when I can’t believe that he is really six years old.  But I am also so proud of him in so many ways.  So I want to wish my “little snuggle” a happy 6th birthday from dad. 🙂

I attended a graduation open house the other evening for a friend, and I was sitting there thinking that it won’t be long and we will be doing the same thing for Cole. It really doesn’t seem possible.  But then I am happy because I think of all the experiences that he has had over the last year, and it would be selfish of me to want to keep him this age just for me.  It just pulls at your heart in a lot of different ways.  You also don’t understand this until you have kids of your own.

So on to the party!!  We celebrated his birthday last week with all of the family from cousins who live far away to the great-grandmas.  One thing that I love about Cole is that he has such a good heart.  I know how much it meant to him to have everybody there.

Here is Cole at about 10 minutes old…(but he was actually about five weeks early)

And here he is at about a year old…

This year’s party was with a camo theme…Cole is now into hunting/camo/army/etc…

I think Blake enjoyed the cake as much as anybody…

That evening we went out to our pond and Cole’s friend Joe did some fly fishing with an audience…

And Grandpa Ty caught a huge bluegill…(I don’t fish, but they all said it was huge.) 🙂

Blake wasn’t too sure about touching it though…

These are our resident geese that have taken over our pond…Cole likes to try to chase them away, but for whatever reason they keep coming back…Perhaps I should see if they would like a print of this…