I have watched you do some pretty incredible things this year. You can read and write like a second grader. You can count and add and subtract more than your mathematically challenged Mother at your age ever could. I have seen you make new friends and treat them like treasures. You have always been so giving and loving towards everyone, even if you only want to give your daddy and me kisses. You want to try new things and I do my very best to make sure you can experience all of that. You wanted to do dance and we did it. Of course you complained about it at first because you like to stay home on your little gadgets (kids these days) but little did you know that you would end up truly loving it. You even made sure to let me know that you want to do it next year!
I have seen you get up on stage three times this year so far and perform. Once when you graduated Kindergarten, once for your dance recital and once for your summer camp talent show. Your shyness is still very much there, but I am watching you grow out of it every day and that's what makes you, you Nina. I was the same way when I was a little girl. You told me you didn't want to go to camp and on the first day I picked you up and you had on a jester hat you made and I asked you how you liked camp and you said you loved it. Later on that evening, your friend Danielle came over and I heard her say to you, "You know camp is six hours long?" Then you came running in to the kitchen and yelled at me, "Are you crazy Mom? You sent me somewhere for SIX HOURS?!" Yes I did my child. You will be gone longer than that this upcoming school year and you need to get ready for it by waking up in the morning and having a full day of school. You still throw a fit sometimes (especially on days when you don't go on trips) about going to camp but you go and you end up having a blast every single time. You see, I know you. I know that you have the opportunity there to do different things and make new friends and although that may scare you, I have to let that happen. Growing emotionally and socially isn't going to happen by staying home all the time my sweet Nina. I'm just so proud that you have made such big strides over the last twelve months.
Your teacher absolutely adored you this year. She always complimented me on how polite you are and how smart you are. Of course I already know those things but now everyone else who gets to know you sees it too. I couldn't be more proud of the little woman you are becoming. You still wrap your little arms and legs around me and tell me you love me. You nuzzle your little head in my neck and call me "Mama do da." You always say I'm the best Mom in the world and hug me so tight, the love explodes out of me. I am a lucky person to have such an amazing daughter.
You're also still extremely funny. You're a little goofball. Whenever I take you to see movies, you always look up at me at the sad parts and start laughing because you know I'm crying. Haha! You say, "I knew you were going to cry at that part." But there have been times where I caught you tearing up at certain times in movies we have seen and it amazed me. Your heart is bigger than the universe and you feel a lot more than most kids do. You're just a wise little girl and you make your Mommy unbelievably happy. Every morning you wake up smiling and laughing and I know we are doing something right. I love you my little Nina Bean. I know you hate being called that now, but to me, you'll always be my Bean. <3
Your loving Mum
