Catching up on old pictures. Hannah's birthday was actually 2 months ago.
Eli igniting the candles.
Singing Happy Birthday
The birthday girl. She's starting to turn from a little girl into a young lady. It's a beautiful transformation.
You know how good parents present their children with elegantly wrapped gifts that are almost too pretty to open? Yeah, that's not us. Here's a box and a knife, my darling.
Legos! (As if we don't already have a whole roomful of them. Don't get me started.)
Beauty and the Beast reusable bag (which just happens to match her next Halloween costume) full of books for my voracious reader.
And one of the biggest perks of turning 12 in our house is that you're finally allowed to sit in the front seat!
:) We have the same rule about the front seat!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday to your girl. My Nature Angel must be almost exactly the same age as your Hannah, and you're right about the transformation from girl to young woman!
Then a happy 13th year to your Nature Angel, too! One of my local friends has a daughter the same age as Hannah, also adopted from China, who is about a foot taller than my little peanut.
DeleteYes, the front seat perk is very exciting around here too. Happy belated birthday.
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Dawn
Front seat at 12 seems to be more popular than I realized! Most of my local friends don't have that rule, so it's nice to hear I'm not the only one.
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