Happy Birthday, Makenna!

To our beautiful Makenna Sage whose birth day is missing on the calendar this year . . .
Happy Birthday number five!

 

When I look back at the Birthdays that we have been able to celebrate with you, one that stands out is when we visited you in Indonesia for your first birthday
 and had the privilege to witness your first steps.
Oh how excited you were!
You shoulders pulled back, chest forward to balance, and proud as can be!

 

Then I remember, as will other friends, when two years later you announced that when

Papa and Grammy come to Indonesia, you would be wearing your pretty dress to the airport.

That's when I decided that meeting at the airport was as good a reason as any

to celebrate with a pretty dress!

 

When we learned that you'd be moving back to Canada, I made sure

there was  a pretty dress in the dress up trunk.

It seems that more often than not,

 that dress becomes your play dress when you are here.

 

A princess at heart!

We love you, Kenna

with your little English accent,

your love for sweet things

 and your endearing smile!

 

Please don't grow up too quick!

Hugs and kisses from

Papa and Grammy