what i want to remember about nine

what i want to remember about nine:

• the year you taught yourself how to do a handstand and a one handed cartwheel 
• the year you won "most promising dancer" award at your dance school
• the year you found out you definitely had allergies, no cats or bee stings for you
• you requested Totoro on your jack-o-lantern
• you moved up to the advanced Irish step class and tried hard shoes for the first time ever
• we took our first ever trip to Maratha's Vineyard as a family where you dug clams and actually ate one!
• you won a bike at school, but then re-donated it to another student because you already had a bike and wanted someone else who needed it more to have the new one
• you mastered your new snow tube
• you gave harper thousands of kisses
• you started middle school (!!!)
• your great teachers were Mrs Lees for 3rd grade (i think a big fave of yours) and now Mrs Allen for 4th
• you are an AVID reader
• you still collect all things tiny.  right now, heavy on the shopkins :)
• your favorite things: writing, mac n cheese, chicken caesar salads, the color yellow, the song "America's Sweetheart", playing outside, your best buddies kailee and charlotte, dancing, favorite puppy, sleeping in, and laughing 

NINE was mighty fine!
i admire your spunk, your spirit, your brain, your physical strength in that amazing tiny body of yours, your smile that lights up a room, your sense of humor, your kindness.

LOVE you kiddo!
xo
momma