birthday

On The Day That You Were Born, The Angels Got Together And Gave Me Really Good Drugs

June 7, 2011 By Blonde Mom 5 Comments

Miss C, August 2002 (12 weeks old)

The chunkalicious arm rolls from the summer of 2002 are, sadly, but a memory. We still have this beautiful baby quilt made by my grandmother, though.

Yesterday was my sweet girl’s 9th birthday and we spent most of it in the car, driving home from my nephew’s wonderful wedding weekend in Michigan. She got to choose where we stopped for lunch and dinner on the road, but I can tell she was a little disappointed to spend most of her special day watching DVDs in the back of the car.

We’ll be celebrating all week, I assured her, and her actual party with her friends is this Thursday.

Happy Birthday to Miss C, my beautiful girl of summer. I am so proud of you and so proud to be your mama.

Remember, you will always be my baby.

I love you. You are my sunshine.

Mommy

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Happy Six

March 15, 2011 By Blonde Mom 4 Comments

Birthday lunch at school with mommy

Dear Miss A:

This past weekend we celebrated your 6th birthday by watching you basically get catapulted into the air repeatedly in a human sling shot bungee contraption at the local gymnastics center (luckily we ate cake afterwards). You loved every squeal with delight give mommy high blood pressure moment of it.

I can hardly believe you are 6 now! It seems like just yesterday you were born and you were sleeping in the bassinet that Miss C slept in. It was a gorgeous day for your birthday Saturday, much like the day we met you for the very first time.

You’ve experienced a lot of wonderful things in the past year. You started kindergarten, you became a Brownie, you started playing soccer, you got your first stitches, and you are now reading like a pro. You love to dance and sing and there is no curbing your ambition. In the past few weeks you have told me you want to be an artist, an archeologist, and an Irish jig dancer when you grow up. Lately you’ve started to shun all the trappings of being a girly girl and you have torn the knees of your jeans running and climbed many a tree over the past year. Still, despite the fact that you’ve started a beer bottle cap collection and dressed up as a werewolf for Halloween, you love your new American Girl doll and you like to have your hair braided and shop for new shoes. You endear me with some of our indepth conversations at bedtime and your inventive phrases, such as happy crying, and you never cease to amaze me with your infectious imagination and hilarious personality.

We love you to the moon and back, as you’d say, a hundred zillion times.

Mommy

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Today You Are Five

March 12, 2010 By Blonde Mom 21 Comments

Miss A 11 Days Old

11 days old

10 weeks old

1 year old

Miss A 2

2 years old

Miss A 3

3 years old

4 years old

4 years old

Dear Miss A:

Earlier this week a boy was chasing you on the playground and he tried to kiss you. Your teacher told you maybe it was because you were pretty and he was in love with you. Without hesitation you tossed your hair, looked at her, and said matter-of-factly, “It’s the hair.” This pretty much sums up your personality these days.

Tomorrow we are celebrating your birthday at Chuck E. Cheese with overpriced pizza and game tokens and lots of hand sanitizer. I have somehow managed to avoid a party at Chuck E. Cheese for 7 years of motherhood, and for that alone I deserve some sort of medal or a key to the city. I am relenting, I must admit, just a tad bit because you are the baby. You’ll start kindergarten this year and it is going to both simultaneously break my heart and fill it with pride to see you walk into your new classroom wearing a huge new backpack and toting an unmarred lunch box.

All the treasures in the world, all the diamonds and the pearls can’t replace my Miss A. That is from my special song to you that I made up when you were just a baby with a head full of dark hair and the world’s biggest dimple.

The day you were born it was the first 70 degree day of the year. You have been lighting up our lives with your sweet, fun spirit ever since.

Happy birthday Miss A!

Love, Mommy