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Mama's Mail, Lily's sixth birthday

My dearest Lily:

This past year has been a year that has seen you come into your own in so many ways.  Dad and I have always been so taken with your independence and your ability to concentrate and focus on things, which has always been one of your best qualities.  And this year was no different.

This year in Kindergarten you set your sights on learning to read and you did just that. You practically did it by yourself over the course of a weekend.  You would just sit and sound out the words. A few days later you were literally reading books which turned into you taking on reading short chapter books.

Even as I write this, you are sitting in front of me doing math worksheets.  You got up from watching television and came over to do some math, completely independent of everyone else, as usual.

Not only are you a great student but you have always had a rhythm that we would wonder about. How does such a young girl know how to move quite so well, we would say to each other? So we enrolled you in some dance classes, not ballet or tap, as you had your fill of that in your earlier years, but a real dance class with actual choreography.  Your instructor would tell me that you had a talent for picking up choreography, so we are very interested to see where dance leads you in the future.

You continue to be your own mysterious little being, causing people to always want more Lily.  You still kiss me every time I put my lips anywhere near your face and I so adore that about you.  Last night I asked you to promise to always do that and if that would be a promise you could keep?  And you responded that "yes, yes you could keep that promise."

You have a knack for details and always manage to know more dates and times than I do.  You are extremely sure of yourself and continue on a daily basis to know precisely what you want.

Your favorite thing this year was probably shopping at Macy's. That is what you wanted for your birthday, a shopping spree with your best friend Annie. We also tried for a sleep over but that ended abruptly at 3:15am as she announced to me ever so sweetly, that she didn't think this was going to work out. 

You have so many cute friends at school that seem to love you so much. You even have one male admirer who told his mommy the other day that the best part of his day was "loving Lily".

You have a sister who watches out for you and loves you in a way that is unparalleled to anything I have seen before.  Most of the time Belle has to beg you for hugs and kisses but sometimes you give of them freely.  You can be a little stingy with your affections towards Belle which makes her very sad, but I hope that changes as you mature.  Don't get me wrong, you live for her and are never more than two steps behind her, you are just a bit stingy with the lovin'.

You are so excited to move to the suburbs and even more excited to have a pool club near our new house.  I wish you all the luck in your new school and in first grade next year and hope you have a wonderful summer at camp. 

I will continue to love you more than words could ever describe.

Love,

Mama

Six

Q: How old are you today?

A: Six

Q: What did you do on your birthday?

A: I went to Adventureland and it was an amusement park and it was AWESOME!

Q: What did you do to celebrate your birthday with your friends?

A: I went with my best friend Annie and we were having a sleepover and we went to Macy's and bought an outfit and then to Chuck E Cheese's with our outfits on.

Q: What was your favorite part of that day?

A: Chuck E Cheese's and trying on my new clothes.

Q: Are you excited about being six?

A: I can do things that are for big kids now.  Like I can swim without floaties. 

Q: What can you do that you couldn't do when you were five?

A: I couldn't, hmmmm, that is a hard question.  I couldn't go on rides that weren't my size.

Q: Did you get presents? 

A: I got Cooking Mama and its a game and it is on your DS and its really fun and you get to bake things and you can unlock a new recipe.

Q: What is your favorite color?

A: Pink and sparkling purple.

Q: What is your favorite show?

A: Ummm, uhhh, So You Think You Can Dance and American Idol.  Those are two contest shows.  One is about singing and one is about dancing. 

Q: What do your want to be when you grow up?

A: First a rock star when I am a teenager and then a vet.

Q: What is your favorite food?

A: French bread.

Q: What is your favorite meal?

A: Meal, meal, meal, hhmmm, pizza and garlic nuts. 

Q: What is your favorite game to play?

A: SuperMario Brothers and Cooking Mama

Q: What is your favorite sport?

A: Soccer

Q: What is your favorite thing to do in the summer?

A: Swimming

Q: Who is your best friend?

A: Belle, Annie, Christine and Ariana

Q: Who will you miss the most?

A: Annie and Christine but I will grow in touch with them.

Q: What is your favorite thing that Mommy does?

A: Goes shopping.

Q: What is your favorite thing that Daddy does?

A: Gives me treats.  Are you going to write this on your blog?

Q: How about school, is that almost over?

A: Yeah I think I have about one and a half months.  I don't know how many months are left actually.  I think I have about three weeks or four maybe.

Q: And what are you going to do this summer?

A: I'm gonna, we're gonna move and we are going to go to a new school in September 9th, and we are going to go to our new pool because now we have a pool closer because we never had that before.  And I am going to wear my new bathing suit, for the first time.

Q: Are you going to miss this house?

A: Yeah but we can still pass by this old school and pass by the old neighbor.  And I can't wait to move and meet new friends there.  I can even meet children next door, maybe my neighbors and we can be friends and we can go bicycle riding together.

Q: Do you want to be a Mom when you get older?  Do you want children?

A: Yeah I want to be a Mom and hmm, how many children do I want?  I want one child.

Q: So you only want one child?

Lily says: Ask me why?

Q: Why?

A: Because I don't have to waste my money.  I don't have to buy something for one children and then get for another and THEN if I get for another and then if I don't have a second child then you don't have to waste my money.

Q: But then your child won't have a brother or sister?

A: But then those children would fight and fight and FIGHT just like me and Belle do but that is kinda in our common, in common.

Q: What else should I know about Lily at six years old?

Lily: Well, now I want to ask you a question?

Who makes children?

Growth Spurt

Tonight Belle, my eight and a half year old sixty pound daughter who does not have one ounce of fat on her long lean body ate the following for dinner:

a bowl of strawberries

a quarter of an entire pineapple

half of a 12 inch cucumber

2 long celery sticks with salt

2 jumbo carrots

a bowl of bean sprouts

what we thought was desert: a plain Entenmann's donut

 

then decided she was not quite satiated enough and had:

a cinnamon mini bagel

a bowl of Spanish rice

another one and a half cinnamon mini bagels

and to wash it all down, a fifteen ounce strawberry shake from Trader Joe's

 

And the night before she ate sixteen rolls of sushi.

Loving

Being able to feel the excitement and sense of pride radiating from Belle when she told me she was one of only two students who got a 100% on her social studies test.

Possessing humor

Brilliant Joke, for men.
Women: Read the first half only.

 

A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball into the woods.  She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap. 

 

The frog said to her, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes."  The woman freed the frog, and the frog said, "thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes.  Whatever you wish for, your husband will get times ten!" The woman said, "That's okay." 
 
For her first wish, she wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world. The frog warned her, "You do realize that this wish will also make your husband the most handsome man in the world, an Adonis whom women will flock to".

 

The woman replied,  "That's okay, because I will be the most beautiful woman and he will have eyes only for me." So, KAZAM she's the most beautiful woman in the world! 

 

For her second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in the world. The frog said, "that will make your husband the richest man in the world. And he will be ten times richer than you. "

 

The woman said, "That's okay, because what's mine is his and what's his is mine."  So, KAZAM she's the richest woman in the world!

 

The frog then inquired about her third wish, and she answered, "I'd like a mild heart attack."
 
Moral of the story: Women are clever. Don't mess with them.
 
Attention female readers: This is the end of the joke for you. Stop here and continue feeling good.

 

Male: The man had a heart attack ten times milder than his wife!!!

Moral of the story: Women are really dumb but think they're really smart.  Let them continue to think that way and just enjoy the show.
 

PS: If you are a woman and are still reading this, it only goes to show that women never listen.
 

 

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Was that funny or did it piss you off?  I wish I had some deep Freudian interpretation for you depending on whether your reaction to that was laughter or disdain.  It was a mixed bag at work for the recipients of that email, some pissed off, some laughing. 

 

I have to admit I was on the laughing side of this joke and took no offense to it at all.  I actually thought it was quite funny.  Completely untrue as nine times out of ten women will outsmart men and even they know it, but I have enough of a sense of humor and an ability to poke fun at myself to think it was funny because I fell for it.