age: 5 1/2

reading: magic bunny

loving: watermelon, grapes, strawberries (All summer fruits, you would make a meal out of it if you could, just like your grandmother).

drinking: soy milk

wearing: zebra striped dress

wanting: to see despicable me 2 in the theaters

asking: when you can ride your bicycle without the training wheels

one night, as I was tucking you in, you said: I wish I could ask Santa to make all my dreams come true. Except not the bad dreams. I don’t want the scary ones to come true.