4 years old Makena

Happy 4th Birthday to our "sugar plum"- thats what omi calls you. You are just a dream. I can't even tell you how easy going you are..and you are sick right now, your eyes all crusted over, nose running, and you still have a smile on your face, and say "I'm ok." I love spending my days with you. Weve been down with omi a lot since she is sick. You enjoy being there, and Omi and Papa spoil you. You have been a sport going back in forth in the car to longview every week. You had a fun birthday with Hunter at a karate place. You have a batgirl shirt that you wear and love, and you wore that to the party. You wanted a chimpumks cake, but there were no chipmunks anywhere. You love simon, and you sing all the songs they sing. and you sound like a chipmunk right now with your voice. You like to play with Giselle, and you think of her all the time. At the doctors office you insisted on getting her a sticker too. And for christmas you wanted to get grandpa a bike because you knew he had his stolen from the garage, so you brought it up out of the blue. You are very thoughtful, and compassionate. We took giselle skiing last week, and you wanted nothing to do with the cold, or putting on your coat, or sledding, nothing! Of course we all love the mountain, but you were content sitting in the lobby all day. you did fall asleep on me, and I enjoyed that as much as skiing, but I'm hoping you will enjoy skiing too. giselle, you are doing so good at skiing this year. I took you down the first run, and you fell, and I thought you would cry, but you would laugh and get right up and keep going, and going pretty fast at that. I am so proud of you! you had quite a year of firsts, learning a little golf, paddleboarding and the skiing. You started kindergarten with mrs. crockett and you are doing great. I didn't think you would ever get used to getting up early as your our night owl, but you have managed to get up...albeit, its still a struggle. you are doing great in school, and the only thing is disrupts class, and you like to tattle on whos doing things wrong, but I am not worried. I am worried about the boys though.. you already said you want to play with jake but he only plays with you if you do what he wants..and your fine with it. of course, I try to teach you that real friends do what both of you like. and you like to play with kyle a lot too, and his birthday party is coming up this weekend. I think having hunter as a boy cousin you are really comfortable playing with the boys. you are learning to read already, and you have a great class of kids. you are so good with makena, and make up lots of creative games and fun to play with her. you are passionate about things, and sometimes overwhelmingly so, but I think its an amazing quality, but sometimes were tired, and you are quite insistent on doing, being, having, whatever it is at the moment that you want or need it. I think this quality will take you far in following your dreams and making them happen. I wish you both to have a beautiful life, and to have that you must create a peace within yourself. I think creating a simple life and being content and grateful for what you have are the beginning. Creating quality relationships with good friends and family that have good hearts, to create health with healthy lifestyle and food, and create mental wellness with exercising your mind, and body, and faith and peace with yoga, nature, and grounding yourself in the beautiful world right in front of you and paying attention to the miracles in everything. to realize that beauty is found inside you and others, and realizing material things do not create a beautiful life. follow your passions, follow your heart, follow your goals. serve others, and find ways to make a difference in the world, even if its with one person, it makes a difference.