happy 5th birthday, bailey!

{these pictures were from earlier in the summer...remember when i took each kid to the beach one at a time??}

your birth was so easy.
and i don't think i've used that word {easy} with you since :-)

but you are SUCH a joy.
joy just seeps out of you.
you can't help it.
it's WHO YOU ARE.

you take my breath away.
and give me headaches with how MUCH you require of me.

i can't wait to see how you like school.
i'm really not sure how it will be for you.
you are very independent...but when you are in your "space."
you are very dependent on me and don't like being away from me.
i'm not sure how those 2 things are going to go together as you head off for school.

i do know that school doesn't know what's about to hit them!

this is your "concentrating and listening" face...i kinda wish you'd do it more often...

you have a strength that comes from DEEP within you.
i love that about you.
it will take you far in life!

and you are so FUN!

my days are certainly brighter because you are in them, my bailey.

i am going to miss you like crazy when you are at school.
but i can't WAIT for your one of your great hugs {you wrap yourself all around me and melt into me like nothing i've ever known} when you get home!

happy 5th birthday!!!
i love you so much!