happy birthday pinky la rue.
Mia. You are Six. Worldly. Wordy. Questioning. Sassafras. Kind. Rude. Bold. Brave. Pushy. Helpful. Stick your tongue at me 100 times a day. Name caller. Bed cuddler. Loud dreamer. Drooler. Baby lover. Greens eater (this week). Honey thief. Sugar stealer. Amazing singer. You- can’t- possibly -be -white dancer. A good friend. Intuitive. Totally of this earth. Ultimate beauty. Fancy. Fast. Faster. Fastest. In love with a good book. Family girl. Board game player. Family Fashion Consultant. Made me a mother. Cry baby. Big Girl. Listener. Storyteller. Discoverer. Sap-fanatic and collector. Drama Queen. Long legs. Kicker. Blonder than blond. Orange specks in eyes. Scar on your left check. All day long art maker. Messy but fantastic baker. Grandma lover. Swimmer. Rock licker. Deep sea dreamer. Viking warrior. Pirate slayer. Skateboarder. Sand digger. Brave. Camper. Fair. Body aware. Not a biker (yet). Rollerskater. Fantastical. Feather finder. Bird geek. Fish expert. Slug saver. Fairy translator. Venus channeler. Mis-matcher. Headstander. Forever Young. Strongest. Gentlest. Girl.
My girl. Your own girl. Teacher. Healer. Sage Seer. Ordinary, everyday miraculous person.
{by the way i had to hand my crunchy mama card for the shade of pink you wanted. you wanted pink, like REAL pink, like HOT pink, like DAY GLO. So I pushed aside the beet juice and the smashed raspberries of birthdays past and bought the nastiest stuff I could find, most likely, filled with red and yellow #666. but the look on your face when you saw your cake? worth the toxins. every last one of them. happiness overides it and heals. i am sure of it.}
Thank you a million times over. Again and again. I know you know I try. I know you know I love you. I know how hard you live. Sometimes you just feel cruddy and you tell me and we sit with it and sometimes you feel like you are high and we ride that swell. Watching you grow is an honor. I am accountable because you see right through me and call me out when I’m a phoney and not present. Every day I savor the lessons, our bliss, our struggles. I savor it all, because all we have is this, right here. Perfection. Failure. Beauty. Insides turned out. A mess. Lost socks. Splattered paint on rental home wall. A very wet kiss on my cheek. An empty wallet but four hands full of hot cocoa. A pile of books to read to eachother and a pile powdered sugar you spilled all over the pantry floor. We have tantums and unicorn kingdoms. We have eachother.
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my divine flower. truly the gift that re-minded me of the goddess of all things fabulous and sensual and beautiful. My libra girl, I love you.
mama mary b.
Mia,
I love you and your mama and these photos and your larger-than-this-life heart and persona.
I met you when you were a little over 2 years old. Even then, magic surrounded you. And you surrounded it.
You made your mama a MOTHER and she has helped guide me into motherhood. As such, you are both imprinted on my heart.
Ride the wave, baby! Ride it!
xoxo
Leigh mama mere mortal
Comment by MereMortal — September 28, 2009 @ 4:21 pm
Happy Birthday Mia Rose - I remember you, snug in a sling the first night I met your mama, and I remember you naked and muddy running through the house with bella making mischief and giggles and beauty and lots of glorious noise, and I remember you covered in sand on the beach in California, and punk-rock-princesed out at another birthday party here in Arizona and i smile. Happy Birthday Dear Girl, Happy Birthday
Comment by Jeanette — September 28, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
Happy Birthday Mia! Love Seamus!
Comment by Seamus — September 28, 2009 @ 6:35 pm
What a gorgeous girl - inside and out! Happy Birthday Mia!
Comment by gearhead mama — September 29, 2009 @ 12:15 am
oooh, loving all the pink!
~ happy birth-day to Mia!! ~
Comment by Stacy (Mama-Om) — September 29, 2009 @ 12:16 am
Congratulations on six years of motherhood. Mia must be a masterpiece. She glows in these photos and in your words. What a lucky girl, what a lucky mama.
Comment by Becca — September 29, 2009 @ 2:03 am
LOVE.THAT.CAKE. Wow! Happy Birthday, Mia! 6 is special.
Comment by Ninotchka — September 29, 2009 @ 10:17 pm
Happy birthday, beautiful Libra. You & your mama and meant for each other!
Comment by Jena — October 2, 2009 @ 10:24 am
Mama MB and Mia Rose,
We’ll be there tomorrow, sparkly, pink and rosey girls!
Can’t wait.
xo,
B
Comment by brooke — October 3, 2009 @ 4:08 am