I love looking back at baby pictures, and seeing MG at 3 months old you can already see her thoughtful and smiley self emerging! I’ve read the books that say to avoid labeling each sibling, and to be careful how you think about each child in relationship to the others. While I am sure that these are valid points, some children scream for those labels, with personalities that jump right out at you.

Today MG is 8. Below is her self-portrait taken on her last day of being 7 and a sketch made by one of our favorite t-shirt designers, JadenKale (who has a shirt called Oh Burned!!! currently for sale. You’ll see more about this shirt in tomorrow’s post). They completely fit her personality!

MG is a gemini, and like her dad and her Vovo, she fits the star sign completely – she is really happy-go-lucky and laid back, until she is NOT. She is also our goofy girl, our clown, our child who is most likely to be giggling at any given time. MG is also the child with the most active imagination, and in our family, that is really saying something! MG has her head in the clouds, imagining her own little world, and will happily tell you how different things are in her world from the real world.

It’s a fun challenge being a mom to a child who is so imaginative, happy, and intense in a completely different way from her sisters. She is a mix of a challenge and a stand-up comic. MG is the child who most looks like me, who loves reading, and who loves purple. She is also the child who has her very own fashion sense and an energy level that had her dubbed “hurricaine” when she would run around us in circles as a “toddler”. MG is also the girl that pulls her sisters together, the one who will happily play with either, both, or none.

Sweet, goofy, fun, serious, spacey, lovable MG, happy 8th birthday. Enjoy your day and your Pokemon stuff, you deserve a great day. I’m glad to have you as my girl!