Cats in the cradle...

UPDATE: She got this Hanna Montana outfit as a gift and wore it this morning to school along with the additude.

Today is my little girls sixth birthday. What can a proud papa say that hasn't been said before. Yes, I mourn the loss of our once little squirmy butter bean, who has now been replaced by someone who pesters me nightly to see if the History Channel has posted another episode of "The Universe" series on our cable companies On-Demand menu. The little girl who would drag me back to the staircase to play with all her dolls which she had meticulously laid out in anticipation of my arrival home from work. She's a big girl now. She reads far ahead of her class and it's now difficult for her mother and I to conduct "secret" conversations around her anymore since she is so smart and picks up everything.

My wife said the phone rang a few weeks ago and Katie happened to answer it. She stood for a minute with the phone in her ear and then starting reciting the characteristics of a black hole. "Well, at the end of a stars life, gravity collapses it into a hole and the gravity is so strong that nothing can escape its pull not even light etc...". She hung up the phone and when her mother asked her what that was all about she said, "Uncle Chuck wanted me to tell Caroline what a black hole was, she's studying them in high school". I stand in awe of her. All credit is due my wife who is hands down the greatest mom in the world.

Happy 6th birthday Katie. My love for you is beyond the size of the universe itself.