July 19, 2008
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She's 11
As much as it pains me to say.
Miss Zeria is 11.
Its...shocking somehow.
Her birthday was a bit hard. We were so busy that "celebrating" it snuck up on us. I had pressys and stuff, but she didn't really bug about it until Tuesday when she asked for a birthday party. It was tooooooo hard to make one come out of thin out that quickly. And as a result she was a bit sad today.
I've promised her a party sometime this week...but she's never been one for delayed gratification.
Add to that...that she has a very special birthday. She shares it with my dad.
Which means her birthday has always been very honored. She always had ALL the extended family at it, and its just been a blast.
My dad can't be anywhere near the kids for at least the next four months. (we found that out last night...we thought it was a month or two.) So there was a lot of sadness over just plain missing grandpa.
Soooooo we always have a birthday outing. And today was no exception. Zeria LOVES to swim, so we got on our swimsuits packed a picnic lunch and headed to the "closest" lake about 35 minutes away from us. IT was gorgeous and hot here, so we just went in our swim suits.
About five miles from the lake the fog kicked in, and the wind. And we could barely sit outside to eat our lunch. IT was BRR freezing nasty cold. Needless to say she cried. I just let her. I told her go ahead, it just plain sucks. LOL
This afternoon went mostly better, except as bedtime approached she finally admitted how much it was hurting that Grandpa wasn't here, and I hugged her and she was sobbing. And then she mentioned she was also sad that J'dai hadn't called. (her next oldest sister, my moms youngest). I was actually quite frankly a bit frustrated that they hadn't called. So I snuck into the bedroom and grabbed the phone and dialed up. Got the answering machine, left a message asking them to call. Tried again two minutes later suspecting I'd gotten the voice mail, got Jdai and Jdai was more then willing to talk to Zeria. I brought the phone out into the living room and that lightened Zeria's mood greatly. My mom was out, so she didn't talk, but a few minutes later I checked the caller i.d and realized we'd missed 4 calls...2 of them being my moms. *growl*
Zeria got off the phone with Jdai and got weepy again. I hugged her and suggested she come watch tv with Rob and I. Everybody else was in bed. She liked that idea, and we cuddled up to watch the first episode of season three of Voyager. The phone rang.
Shock of all shocks it was Zeria's oldest sister Christina. Christina was my nanny for several years. And *used* to be very very attatched to the kids. Then she grew up...and its been a hard road for her, and some stuff has happened, and she hasn't been a very good big sister. Its hurt Zeria a lot. For her to remember Zeria's birthday was probably her best gift!
They talked for a little bit...and then we snuggled back into watch the movie. And the phone rang again. It was my brother Gabe calling to wish Zeria happy birthday. So three out of her six siblings called her. It made her very happy, and ended the day on a much lighter note.
Tomorrow we are trying our old neighbor hood lake. Lake Lael. If its sunny. I think we'll call our old neighbors before traversing there. ROFL. BEcause flop two of the birthday outing would ever so NOT be pretty. If its not...I think its time to go to a pool. As much as I hate the cholrene in them, my very big 11 year old needs one thing to go right on her birthday.
Miss Judy a very dear friend at church saw Zeria shortly after the return from the Lake Drive and said Zeria had every right to cry. LOL And then reminded me of the song. "Its my party I'll cry if I want to." I guess some days just don't quite work out the way we expect them to.
Anyhow on that note Here's my very big Zeria Louise. In her fancy schmancy hair doo that my sister Christina did while we were on vacation. She is still wearing it, and it still looks quite good actually.
We should get at least 2 more weeks out of it, more if we'd remember to put her doo rag on at night.
Happy Birthday Princess
Comments (4)
Wow... she's growing up so fast!
Happy Birthday Zeria!
And at this age (and be ready for several more years now) everything that happens is going to be dramatic. It's called teens. lol I hope today goes better for her. Pretty girl!
Tell Zeria Happy Birthday from all of us and I so... understand the 'bad' birthday. I have had my fair share of really rotten birthdays. Do you remember when we were taking Joel to the one of his many hospital trips to seattle. He was on Crutches and we were supposed to go to the zoo. Half of the zoo was closed and when we had lunch I lost my birthday card behind the bench at the restaurant. I'm pretty sure I could tell many others... I totally understand!! Mom called on my birthday this year... I thought to say happy birthday... I don't know if she forgot to say it or what but she went off on a bunch of stuff that was happening and then said she had to go. She never did say happy birthday. It was pretty funny. I looked over at tony and said. "that was interesting, I thought that was a birthday call but apparentely not".(oh well) Your lovely birthday stuff for me arrived the day you left by the way. I'm wearing the shorts as we speak and the shirt is very lovely. THANK YOU
She is a very beautiful girl, and growing up will get worse before it gets better. But you and she will make it.
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