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Julia. Our Julia.
Jules. Julesy. JJ.
Today you are 8 years old!!!
You have grown into such an amazing young woman. You started out amazing, and got even more amazing!:
You are silly, and fun. You are caring and sensitive. You are bold and brave, and sometimes you remind yourself that you're just 8 and you allow yourself to be.. .well 8!
You excel at schoolwork, and fun, and physical activies, and social interactions.
You are a driving-force: determined, self-motivated, capable, and positive. If you want to do something; you try your hardest to do it. You CARE about the world, and are quite the entrepreneur (with your Drawings Stand, and your "Free Leaves with Faces" business ideas)
You are a joy to be around, even as you're exploring your naughty/cheeky side, which we call "turd behavior."
Your laugh can light up a room. You are crazed, crazed with the desire to leave the house (cabin fever!) You are a wonderfully caring sister, even if you punch your brother in the penis occasionally. You are a sweet daughter, even when you tell me point blank that I need to shave my back. You are a fiercely loyal friend to Toby (Tobinsa, Simmers, Miller, Piller, etc); you contributed so much to Toby's recovery after the loss of his best friend. You love ALL animals, including our newest family members Splinter and Graham Cracker, and ALL of the neighborhood cats...which you've named (or whose names you've learned), and know exactly which ones like to be picked up or petted.
You believe! in Santa, the tooth fairy, cupid... you bet you believe!
You, me, Mama, and Aidan have rocked this pandemic so hard; growing closer together through challenging times.
This year you learned to ride a bike without training wheels, you learned to jump rope, you learned to focus and self-sooth (our "grounding exercises")...which helped you successfully 100% sleep in your new room in your own bed!
You made new friends at school since all of your BFFs and you were separated into different pods because of pandemic logic, you have been rocking the socks off of piano lessons...doing both hands, sight reading, and self-motivated practice! You're a reading machine ("Phoebe and Her Unicorn" is something you've read entirely on your own in the mornings), a note-writing machine, a planner and dreamer, and (a little bit after your birthday) you learned to edit videos!
You are amazing, and I'm so glad you're one of us!
Happy Birthday, our darling Julia!
We love you to a million, billion, trillion pieces! See how we celebrated in this bizarre, closeness-maximized year of 2020!
