After proving that entertaining is one sure way to get motivated about cleaning
Avery is 10 today. I could write some tear jerker about how she was the one who made me a Mom all those years ago and how sweet she is despite remembering (and mentioning often) how I whacked her with a hairbrush when she was four. But I’ll just say I’m glad my baby ticker went on red alert when I was 22 and changed my mind about what I wanted to be when I grew up. She is worth it. (So far.) (I make no predictions about the teen years.)
Avery reads to her sisters, changes the baby’s diaper for a nominal fee, got an A in math last term (after terrorizing me through a summer of special Mommy-Saxon math), ensured that we had a gluten-free alterna-treat for the new girl in her class, and reminds us to have family scripture study.
She rocks her Christmas rollerblades and works hard at dance class. She doesn’t want her ears pierced but she asked for makeup for her birthday. I don’t expect her to actually wear it to school or church, but I got her some to play with. She still wears her pants out at the knee with all the horse-play (literally) at recess. I expect Sears to blacklist us from their KidVantage program any day now.
I want her to keep wearing those holes in her pants until she’s eighteen. Or thirty.
I love her.
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You still look 25. Perhaps she was a teen pregnancy and you’re not telling us so? Happy birthday, Avery!
She sounds like a great kid! I hope she has a fun birthday–and that she wears those knees out for many more years to come.