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| "Mama, I open the pink one first!!!" |
So last night on the night of Anabella's actual 3rd birthday...
(We had an island family birthday party last weekend with balloons and presents and cake and kids. Then on the big day she had a birthday morning "Timmy's" breakfast "all together" with her Daddy AND Mama and then a morning full of opening presents from Mama, Nana & Papa, and Aunties. And now tonight we have a third little birthday dinner with her little best friend Elliot....so I guess when you turn 3 you get three little parties instead of ONE GIANT party like the two birthday years prior!)
I got her a special birthday cupcake, put a "3" candle in it, walked up to where Anabella was snuggled into the sofa, knelt down and held the flaming cupcake before her and sang the entire Happy Birthday song to her alone for the first time ever.
The smile and look of love and amazement on her face was priceless.
After she blew out the candle, I said "Make a WISH Anabella". Without hesitation she smiled, looked me straight in the eyes and said:
"I wish for me and my Mama and my Daddy to ALL play together."
Simplicity. My daughter reminds me daily how easy life really should be. All the presents in the world... the biggest party in the world...can't make up for what she really truly wants, craves and needs (along with every other child ever born) "To play with her Mama & Daddy TOGETHER".
Thank you Anabella April Gracie for blessing my life in a way I didn't know existed, teaching me life lessons every single day that I didn't even realize I needed to learn, rewarding me in abundance, loving me unconditionally, making me giggle like a school girl, showing me the bigger picture, bringing out the best of me and still loving the worst of me, and reminding me of how simple life really is when you open your eyes and your heart.
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| Eating her red velvet birthday cupcake with pink sprinkles... |
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| What she woke up to... |
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| "But Mama, how you do this bow?" |
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| Tangled Princess Doll for Princess obsessed Bellabean |
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| "It's just what I wanted Mama!!!" |
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Barbies, barbies and more barbies...my girl loves her barbies
("Just like Jaidah & Lainah Mama!") |
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| Someone was excited to get a CRAFT BOX from Nana & Papa... |
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