A birthday is a time to reflect over the previous year and count the ways your children have grown. Making you realize as a parent, that time is so precious. A decade ago on January 24th, my last and only daughter Mya Isabella was born. She stolen my heart and had me from the minute I felt her kick and had her nightly hiccups before I ever even saw her face. It just seems as if the past 10 years have zoomed by at warp speed I would have never thought that I would have a mini me with red hair! She's is in fourth grade at Mullan Road Elementary. She is hula dancer and been dancing Halau Hula O' Ku'ulei for five years. She's is a soccer player and is on a U10 Development team on a competitive soccer league called Breakers. She's a Girl Scout Junior and love everything about Girl Scouts. She's sassy, thoughtful, caring, loving, determine, persistent, a go-getter, a natural leader, courageous, and very competitive. She brings joy to those who are around her. Mya has a way of making even the saddest person smile, and her ability to see good in everything is quite special. Mya has been such a blessing in our lives and our lives wouldn't be the same without her. She has taught me so much more that I have ever thought possible and I'm eternally blessed to be her mom.
So as many of you know, we do a whole day celebration of the individual on their birthday but this year it was a little different. Blake was leaving out of town very early on Mya's birthday and wanted to still be part of his daughter's birthday celebration. So it was decided that we would do the birthday's dinner, the birthday pie and some presents the day before. Mya actually struggled with this, she didn't mind the dinner or singing happy birthday to her with her birthday pie but opening her presents before her birthday was a issue. I gave her the option to open all her presents the day before her birthday so dad can be part of this but she didn't want to do this. She still wanted to open her presents on her birthday. So we compromise and she opened only the presents that dad got her.
Funny thing that I didn't have a zero candle, which I thought I had but only had all the other numbers on hand. So one was the only candle on her pie.
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| Mya share such a special bond with Nathan, they both keep me on my toes. |
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| Mya's Birthday Meal Menu that she wrote |
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| Mya is her mother's daughter, she wanted a Puerto Rican meal for dinner! |
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| Birthday Morning |
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| She's so happy with her gifts. |
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| Manicure and Pedicure |
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| Some reason she really wanted to take a photo with the Target dog. |
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| She was heaven with her lunch of tacos and curly fries. |
Mya has her first indoor soccer game on her birthday and she chose to play. She did so well. I just love watching her play.
After we came home she just wanted to play video games with her brother Nate. Her birthday movie she chose for us to watch was "Earth to Echo", which a good movie.
Since living in Hawaii we have incorporated a tradition of candy leis on birthdays with the children's favorite candies. Since Mya's birthday was on Saturday, she really wanted to have her lei on Monday at school but she also requested that I made two leis, one for her and one for her classmate Sophia. Sophia and Mya has been in the same classes since kindergarten and they both share the same birthdays. Every year she request the same thing. This thoughtfulness truly emphasize the type of person my daughter is. It is so darn hard to believe that that she has turned 10 years old!!! We love Mya and can't wait see how she would chose to navigate her future.
