Sunday, April 11, we celebrated Anna’s 7th birthday! We started two weeks before with her birthday countdown calendar, which included gifts and treats for the 12 days leading up to her birthday. This year Anna’s birthday movie was Pollyanna.

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This year Anna drew 3D cakes to make her own birthday banner. We put it up over her bedroom door the night before her birthday. (I drew the sign in the middle of the banner.) Anna’s really doing well in Art class. I always enjoy seeing her projects and the extra projects she makes after learning how to do the process.

One gift I worked on for Anna was a matching doll dress from some fabric she bought last year for a dress. Our local seamstress made the dress for Anna, but said she wasn’t sure she could make doll clothes. I’m wasn’t sure I could either – but it worked.

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This year Anna requested tacos for for birthday meal. We all enjoyed her choice! Since Anna’s birthday was on a Sunday we had her meal during lunch. We started the day with our home church service (church meetings are canceled due to Covid) and then the kids played Phase10 with Josh while I worked on lunch. We did gifts from parents before lunch and gifts from siblings after lunch. It was a fun day!

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We’re thankful for Anna and the gift she is to our family. She’s had a great year of progressing in her reading skills. She often takes books above her reading level and works at reading them. I’m amazed at the words she figures out. She loves math. She love laughing. She loves her dolls – all 9 of them! She is a good helper and will hold Micah for a long time. She also loves writing and illustrating original books. She did her own hair for her birthday pictures.

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We’re thankful for our Anna. Her birth was my unexpected VBAC that allowed me to have our next three children without surgery. Thankful for that gift from God. Thankful for our middle daughter and all the joy she brings our lives!

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