Six?

Have you seen the movie, "Where the Heart Is?" Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd? In the movie, Natalie's character, Novalee, has this issue with the number five. Everything associated with that number goes wrong. (In the book that the movie was based on, it was actually the number seven that was the problem number...just fyi.)

Well, for me, six is the problem number. This is the first year in my collection of pictures that I'm not even sure we HAVE a picture from the actual birthday. When I turned sixteen, I had a massive meltdown about hitting that major milestone. And twenty-six was the biggest letdown, because it was the downhill slope to thirty.

So maybe these pictures are from my sixth birthday and maybe they're not. But they're as close as I can get.

When I turned five, my parents got me a little puppy. I named him Pokey. Pokey ate Mom's rosebushes though, so he had to go. So I am pretty sure that when I turned six, Pokey was replaced by this little one. I've posted pictures of this dog before - this is my Chihuahua named Lassie.

This weekend, at birthday party number one, I got to hang out with my best friend's Chihuahua - Belle. Made me realize how much I miss a cute little dog. Maybe someday!!