Another year with my girl, my sweet honey bear. You keep growing up, you keep changing, you keep looking for all the fun, you keep getting prettier, and you certainly keep us on our toes!
Though you continue to change and grow there are somethings that remain very much Mary Alice. You still do everything with an unworldly intensity. In fact, my hand is still recovering from a weekend out of town where there was much hand holding…
You laugh with your body, volume, veins, face… you use it all. You tell me no less than 300 times a day that you love me!
You still dance in and out of every room, because surely you deserve an over-the-top entrance and exit every time! Always. You have developed an affinity for the family meetings, you like to call them, you like to run them, and you like to leave us all with instructions for our next steps after said meeting. barf!
Your love of family meetings has led into a love of smaller group meetings, mostly with Daddy, because, well, because you are smart and know that I will likely not “understand” or not “give the proper level of feeling validation” that you might be looking for… #barfagain #caseinpoint
You laugh with your body, volume, veins, face… you use it all. You tell me no less than 300 times a day that you love me!
You still dance in and out of every room, because surely you deserve an over-the-top entrance and exit every time! Always. You have developed an affinity for the family meetings, you like to call them, you like to run them, and you like to leave us all with instructions for our next steps after said meeting. barf!
Your love of family meetings has led into a love of smaller group meetings, mostly with Daddy, because, well, because you are smart and know that I will likely not “understand” or not “give the proper level of feeling validation” that you might be looking for… #barfagain #caseinpoint
This year you have begun the quest of finding your place in your world, you have come across the first feelings of not being in the “in-crowd” and I love that you are so confused by these artificial parameters that society places on people groups. You just keep believing that such things are silly, because you are right, “everybody wants to have fun, so why can’t we all have fun together?”
Which leads me into my next point, you are sooooo smart! I mean, I am still confused how I had any genetic contribution in producing a little human with a large human reading level! You are a reader, a really good reader, and I find this both fascinating and motivating! I L.O.V.E. love reading my childhood favorite books with you! I love that this year I get to have a little more of a front seat view of your learning process. You wrote and gave a speech as former president Woodrow Wilson the other day and I was full of all the warm-hearted feelings and once again speechless… how does an eight-year-old have the cognitive reasoning to do such a thing? You my dear are a rock star!
Which leads me into my next point, you are sooooo smart! I mean, I am still confused how I had any genetic contribution in producing a little human with a large human reading level! You are a reader, a really good reader, and I find this both fascinating and motivating! I L.O.V.E. love reading my childhood favorite books with you! I love that this year I get to have a little more of a front seat view of your learning process. You wrote and gave a speech as former president Woodrow Wilson the other day and I was full of all the warm-hearted feelings and once again speechless… how does an eight-year-old have the cognitive reasoning to do such a thing? You my dear are a rock star!
I could stare at you all day, every day. You are dreamy deary!
PS: this is not creepy! I am your mother and I can say this if I want too!
PSS: Thanks for putting up with your brother.
PSS: Thanks for putting up with your brother.
A little birthday interview with the birthday girl!
What is your favorite thing to do? Eat (she is part liar)
What is your favorite color? Gray, because I like silver
What do you want to be when you grow up? Gymnast (she has always believed in miracles)
What is your favorite food? Broccoli
Who do you like to spend time with? Mom
What do you do really well? Word searches and puzzles
What make you laugh? Silas (I love that Silas is a “what”)
What is the best time of day? Sleeping (she is my people)
What are you afraid of? Mice
What do you like to do with your family? Watch movies
What do you love to learn about? Space
Where do you like to go? City Museum
What is your favorite book? ooooh that’s hard, Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
What makes you happy? Daddy (Ha, daddy is also a “what”)
If you had a million dollars what would you buy? Split it with my family and buy clothes for everybody
What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride scooters
What is your favorite toy? Barbies
What is your favorite song? Shake it Off (it is really catchy)
What is your favorite holiday/celebration? Halloween (If I even have to be Mama Bear, I will die)
What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Pulled pork, broccoli, Hawaiian rolls, buttered noodles.
What do you want for dessert on your birthday? Strawberry pretzel salad
What can you do now that you are eight, that you could not do when you were seven? Sit in the front seat… reach the cereal cabinet
What do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday? Go to Disney World
Who is your favorite person in the whole world? God
What is your favorite TV show? Odd Squad
What is your favorite outfit? My long green dress
Where is your favorite place? My room
What is your best memory? When I turned seven because I liked the Rainforest Cafe
What vegetable to you dislike the most? Jalapeños
What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Butter brick (1000% agree)
Who is your biggest hero? God
If you had one wish what would it be? To be at So You Think You Can Dance
