Saturday, October 16, 2010

Happy 9th Birthday, Anna!

O, Anna! Anna sparkles. She really does. She smiles often and laughs easily. She is an artist at heart and loves color, music, and origami. She plays the piano beautifully, as though she and the piano are one. She does many things well and makes many things look easy. Things seem to naturally go her way. We like to say that she is "charmed"--with one exception, she loses anything and everything. Nevertheless, she is not often distressed and with patience and time the lost item will usually find Anna, again.
Anna is not shy, but polite and demure. She is photogenic and loves to be on film or on stage. Although it is her nature to be gentle and modest, she can and will wrestle with James. This usually starts out with laughter and ends in tears. Anna, has fight in her. It just isn't very often that she feels a desire to use it.
One of Anna's favorite pastimes is playing school with Margaret. She loves to read to her younger siblings. She has also recently acquired a love for reading alone. It began with her discovery of the Percy Jackson series. Late at night, after bedtime, I will hear Anna and Gracie reading together. Their latest book is Goose Girl.
This year we discovered that Anna is a natural basket ball player! This came as a surprise to me. She was also one of the fastest runners in her class.
I love Anna!
Anna is like an apple, simply good for the heart and soul.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

thank you for evreything you said about me exept for the "she loses evreything" part.you are the best mom ever and i hope life gets easyer for you.i am prod of you for doing a project with all the work.P.S. I still don't think that the mom carrying the baby is korean at all.

Anonymous said...

me neither
not korean at all.

gloria said...

Anna, you are a beautiful granddaughter. You're everything your mom said and more! I love you. Kim, you are such a writer! I love reading your blogs. (And, who is the not Korean mom?)