She loves to dance. Her favorite song to dance to? Ghostbusters (she tells me to put on this song so she can "show me her moves"). Second favorite? Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies (this is the one she practices her ballet to).
She has become little miss independent lately and I am not allowed to help her with anything (most of the time).
R loves to make up recipes lately. To my surprise, some of them actually turn out. We write those ones down. Today she took maple syrup, clementine segments, granola and grape jelly and mixed it all together in a bowl. She loved it (me not as much). Even though I get a bit stressed about wasting ingredients (maple syrup aahh! she snuck that in when I wasn't paying attention), R and L usually eat the food creations. Perhaps it's because they usually contain either jelly, syrup or chocolate chips.
I know that everyone says this about their kids but I really can't believe how fast she is growing. She is going to be bugging me for the car keys in no time. I guess what I need to do is enjoy every minute of being her mom. I get hugs from her everyday and so does everyone else in the family. She gives the very best hugs. You can tell she loves you just by her hugs alone. I feel so lucky to have her. Happy Birthday R!
Some photos of her over the years
Here are some birthday photos.
She got to wear a pretty new dress to church (compliments of her aunt).
She got a bunk bed for her birthday from us.
Here is her cake. She is into ponies right now. I tried to make Italian meringue butter cream frosting for the first time. I followed a food bloggers instructions twice to a tee and I couldn't make it work. I am going to blame the recipe on that one. Next time I will try Martha Stewart's version. I had to run to the store, buy frosting, and toss it on the cake. I improvised with cut up marshmallows for the clouds because I didn't have enough frosting to make any.
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