The Zorio Family: Nora Kate is 6 AND A HALF

Our sweet sunshine is six AND A HALF now (as of Valentine's Day). Nora Kate is caring and kind. She loves to be sweet and snuggle, but she can also totally hold her own wrestling with her brothers. She loves all things pink, glittery, and girly. She loves having her nails polished. Making decisions on how she wants her hair done each day are important at 6.5 (the styles are "regular," one pony tail, two pony tails, two french braids, or one braid). I can very rarely talk her into a bun anymore because she says it's too heavy on her head. We love her hair and she and I have a lot of fun doing her beauitful curls. Nora Kate loves art and little projects (usually consists of making something out of cardboard and lots of little pieces of scrap paper). She loves Wellie Wishers. We thought we had read ALL of the Wellie Wisher books there are, but we were excited to find two more that we didn't know about this month! Now we have read all of them.

I cannot remember if I recorded this on the blog or not, but after Fall Break Nora Kate moved up to first grade. She was technically old enough to be a first grader anyway, and with all the homeschool pre-K we did last year, she has done well since moving up to 1st. She LOVES our school set up where she goes to the building two morning a week. She has some sweet friends at school that she talks about all the time. NK makes us laugh because I think she knows every persons name at school. The boys will be talking about someone in 5th grade and say that they can't remember their name, and out of nowhere Nora Kate knows it. She was thrilled because during the big boys' basketball season, we saw lots of her school friends at the games and practices. She is also great about making friends just about anywhere and she made friends with siblings of the players on the teams too. She was not bored at all during their season.

Nora Kate still loves to bake. She's a good little soccer player. We didn't do gymnastics after soccer was over this year, which I think we are starting to regret-so we will probably add gymnastics or ballet back in next year if she wants. She also ran her first kids marathon since her 6th birthday. She has done great with having had her earrings for 6 months now. Loves them and has never once complained.

She loves the beach and even though we have been twice since her 6th birthday, so loves to frequently discuss and "plan" our next trip to the beach...that's my girl! She's an expert bike rider and hover boarder! NK has amazed me these last 6 months with her rock climbing skills too. We go to High Point Climbing every couple of months, and she is a great climber! Nora Kate is a sweet big sister to Clayton and little sister to "the boys" as she refers to them. She wants to share a room with somebody like "the boys" do because she's "lonely" all by herself, but deep down I can tell she enjoys having her own space to go to when she wants to do her own thing. Nora Kate is a sweet, fancy, fun, loving, helpful, caring, feisty six AND A HALF YEAR OLD now! We love her so! Here are a few pictures from the past 6 months since she turned 6.