Happy Fifth Birthday, Emilia Wilkie!

Yesterday, we woke up with a five year old in the house! Our sweet Emilia had the very best day – weekend birthdays are always so fun. She opened up her gifts bright and early in our bed, then ate donuts and played with her sticker book until our family started arriving for her and Georgie’s birthday party. We celebrated the girls at their gym – a place that is already starting to feel like a second home!

Emi has grown up so much over the past year. We’ve had a nomadic year for one – moving out of our Houston house in May, spending a summer in Colorado and some time at my parent’s in Katy, then the last six months in our rental house in Austin. She started a new school, made new friends, took a ballet class (which we just dropped), and is still taking gymnastics once a week (she loves it!). Emilia is now a voracious cyclist – she loves going on her bike every evening before dinner and is fast! Thanks to the hilly terrain, she is also strong as she pedals uphill (probably more than I could do!). She adores spending time with her sisters, creative play with her figurine characters and baby dolls, swimming, going to the park and dancing to music. Emilia is a definitely the only introvert in the family (TBD on Poppy’s personality!) – she takes awhile to warm up to new people and things, but then latches to them once she is familiar. She is all around easy going, except when she gets hungry (true ‘hanger!’).

For Isla’s fifth birthday, I asked her twenty questions, so we did the same thing yesterday with Emi! Here is what she had to say: