A Birthday Meme for my Birthday Girl!

March 29, 2007 /
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Last year, I wrote a post about Maya for her 10th birthday. Ted no longer has the mac account, so you can’t go view the slideshow…but the rest of it remains as true today as it was then.  (And it turns out, he’s made a new slideshow…be patient, it takes a minute to load)  I can’t believe it’s a year already since I wrote that post, and 11 years since she was born.  That was an amazing time for us, and we feel blessed to this day.  Maya is the child every parent wishes for when they’re wishing for kids, except she’s even better than that. She’s smart and funny and beautiful and healthy and kind and loving…all around wonderful. I feel so very fortunate to have her.

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Tonight we’re having family over for cake, and tomorrow she’s having a party with her friends, including a sleepover and yet more cake.  Saturday is a father/daughter dance for Girlscouts…so it’s going to be a busy weekend of fun!

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Speaking of fun, in honor of our darling Maya’s 11th birthday, here’s a birthday meme kindly supplied by Ally Bean just this week:

1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday, month and day only.
March 29

2. List 3 events that occurred on that day.

  1. 1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden.
  2. 1799 – New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
  3. 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.

3. List 2 important birthdays.

  1. 1874 – Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
  2. 1943 – Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer

4. List 1 death.

  1. 1912 – Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole

5. List a holiday or observance. (if any)

  1. Youth Day in Taiwan

6. Tag 5 other bloggers.

If you’re interested in doing this, then consider yourself tagged.

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These are all past years of Maya…it’s hard to stop when you have such a lovely model to work with. 😉  Last year, I submitted the story of her birth to Black Belt Mama, on her Birth Stories page.  You can read it, if you’re interested in reading about the scariest, most amazing, wonderful horrible painful day of my life, here.

Happy Birthday, Sweetheart.  You are and always will be, my dream come true. I love you.

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