Happy Birthday Cool kid...

Cool kid...
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Little girl turned COOL KID... where have the weeks, days, moments gone?

I am so proud of the little girl you're turning into.

Funny giggle

creative soul,

energetic adventurer

you ROCK!

I remember like it was just yesterday how I would miss you while you slept in your crib. I would sneak in there to watch you sleeping

cozy, tiny, girl in that big crib...

Testing out your new walking skills at the Vatican was hilarious...

Watching Shrek and then running from the room anytime something scary would happen... a daily occurance

putting on my mascara

picking broccoli in your Great Grandpa's garden in Montana, swinging your feet in Grandpa Richard's creek, RAWRING the cats, playing princesses with Opa, meeting your cousins at Door County, singing Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Star Spangled Banner, with that baby lisp... oh and Yellow Submarine...

Loving The Beatles

Watching World Cup Soccer in Germany, learning Spanish when you were 3 and then translating for us in Mexico when you were barely 4...

finding rusty things for art, adventuring through the forest, saying good-bye to our kitties, "Knocking the House Down" when you performed Yellow Submarine and Little Red Caboose on your Grammy's birthday last year

swim lessons, fishing, camping,

learning to love dogs...

Kindergarten, making new friends,Friday Family Nights, becoming part of your community,

a fantastic reader, learning Math Magic with Daddy, saying sweet things when Chauncee passed away, creating a dream of Mermaids & Warriors with Mommy...

How do you do it all with such openness... grace... love... curiosity...

Happy 6th Birthday, Little One...

Love,

Mommy