December 22, 2019
Bridget's 13th Birthday
My tiny girl with big ideas turned 13, and she keeps amazing me with her composure and kindness. I was a late bloomer, so were her sisters, and she's lining up to be the same. This family knowledge is comforting and brings acceptance instead of anxiety. At 13 Bridget is small, she is thin and short and has tiny feet, but she is growing beautifully. Bridget has amazing shampoo commercial hair and it is again getting long. Bridget likes to braid it in multiple small braids at night so there is a little bit of wave to it the next day. She wears it down but pulls strands of it away from her face and pins it back. Bridget is losing her childlike features and I think I finally may have a kid with my nose. Sometimes the thinness worries me, mostly because she is a vegetarian and I want to make sure she has the nutrition she needs. So now Bridget happily drinks a nutrition shake on the way to school.
Walks to school
Builds small home models out of paper and found items
Listens to audiobooks - mostly contemporary fantasies
Wants to learn blacksmithing
Doesn't like roller coasters or amusement parks
teaching herself Latin
Wants to homeschool
plays Minecraft
attends church youth groups at OLV and St. Agnes
does not practice the French horn
has nerf gun battles in the neighborhood with her friends
like overalls, delicate floral prints and thrifted clothes
became an altar server
loves Math class
can't spell
gets Hanna off the bus in the afternoons
favorite food avocado
dances doing ballet, pointe, contemporary and jazz
hates school but loves her friend group in the library
likes Girl Scout because they do lots of service projects and camp and take trips
prefers tent camping to cabins because of spiders
dislikes commercialism and talks about cottages and tiny farms and living in the woods
Bridget is such an integral part of our family. I can't imagine our house without her.
Emma came down for Bridget's birthday and we went to dinner at Olive Garden. Emma had car troubles and was really late, and Johanna was struggling, so dinner was cut short, but we regrouped back at the house. Bridget opened her gifts. She got a cellphone and was so happy she teared up. I have her on a limited kids plan but she is thrilled to be able to communicate with friends outside of school. Next we piled in the van and I took the girls to Baskin Robbins for dessert. It was so good to celebrate Bridget. I love her.
May God bless her on her birthday and throughout this year.
Happy 13th Birthday Bridgie!
