Letters to Our Children - April 2013

Dear Defne,

My 4th baby. You are my Wild Card....I never know quite what I'm going to get with you but I've learned to hope for the best and prepare for the worst! You are so high-strung, excitable, and a Type A personality, just like your father. Stubborn. Opinionated. Quirky. A definite creature of habit. You must have your peanut butter sandwich every single day (you would eat them three meals a day and nothing else if we let you!). You are so wonderfully polite when you say thank you, but you absolutely, positively refuse to say please!! You are deathly afraid of the vacuum cleaner and of having your hair washed. However, you are a true girly girl. You carry your (empty) purse with you whenever we leave the house and you love to dress up! You are 3 1/2 but you still throw a mean temper tantrum. When your little world is coming to an end, ice cream and 'huggies' usually make it better. You are a devoted little sister and follow your older siblings' every move; but you are so loving and gentle with your little sis too. It warms my heart to see the two of you so close.

Believe it or not, you hate having your picture taken...as soon as you see the camera is pointed your way, you immediately start screaming or making faces..or look away with that little smirk on your face. You almost always give me a gorgeous photo in the end but you usually make me work for it. I guess you felt sorry for me last week and gave me these beautiful smiles on our walk to see the cherry blossoms. Maybe it was because I finally let you wear that 'princess dress' that has been hanging in your closet just waiting for such an occasion. Whatever the reason, I'll consider it an early Mother's Day gift. You're going to be breaking hearts someday with that smile!

Your Baba and I love you to pieces and we'd do anything for you...

Love,
Mom

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