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My, how you have grown.
Happy Birthday my love.

Today we celebrated kiddo’s fifth birthday.

We had chili & cornbread, face painting & magic and, of course, cake & ice cream.

But best of all was the time with family & friends.

I feel so blessed to have spent a lovely Mother’s Day weekend with family. I was born on Mother’s Day, so this is always a most special holiday for us.

We went down to my parents’ home in the South Bay, and started with a mani-pedis–Samantha’s first:

The house was filled with flowers from the garden:

We documented the joys of three generations:

We made our favorite leg of lamb recipe:

We celebrated mothers, birthdays & anniversaries:

The littler ones waited most patiently for the present opening to end:

But the best part of all was having the time with my daughter:

I can hardly believe that my darling is now four years old. It truly does seem like just yesterday that she was our “shaky little blob.”

December 15, 2005

And, to think, she now counts to sixty when I ask her to wait a minute.

December 15, 2009

It’s hard to believe that Samantha’s friends are turning four.

I suppose that means she’ll be turning four soon too. How can that be?

By the way, did you know she can write her name?