Happy 7th Birthday Season!

Season actually turns 28 tomorrow. She was lucky enough to have been born on Leap Year--I mean how many people do you know with that birthday. Anyway, here are 28 things I love about Season.

1. She is the most difficult person to argue with. This is definitely a positive quality because I try to avoid arguing with her at all.
2. She has great taste in clothes and I spent most of my time in her closest throughout high school. (P.S. This still applies to you today, even though I know you hate to spend money on yourself.)
3. She has the most giving heart. I have never known anyone so willing to give even her last piece of bread just to make someone else happy.

4. She has such a weakness for strange and unusual animals—ferrets, lizards, chickens, tail-sucking cats, fat basset hounds, Chihuahuas, etc.
5. Born on a leap year and proud of aging so slowly. She has never complained to me that she only has one birthday every 4 years.
6. She is best at giving advice. She is the first person I turn to when I need parenting or organizing questions answered.
7. She is very opinionated and FINALLY refuses to let herself get taken advantage of.

8. Out of all my siblings, she was probably the cutest baby.
9. She looks like an angel when she is sleeping.
10. She is a great mother to three of the cutest children.
11. She and Gary laugh a lot. I have never seen a couple laugh so much together.
12. She has the most beautiful hands. Perfectly sculpted long fingers and never-been-bitten, hard-as-rock finger nails
13. She got the BEST SMILE genes.
14. You may never believe it to look at her, but she has got a wild crazy side to her.

15. She is immensely creative and will be a well known writer some day.
16. She loves ice cream.
17. She does not like to have her picture taken which made my writing this post a little bit tricky. Excuse the dated pictures.
18. She makes beautiful birthday cakes.
19. She has transformed herself from a person who hates to clean to a clean freak.
20. One of her favorite places on our trip to Ireland was the Sally Gap (lol).
21. She does not like to be uncomfortable.
22. She finds joy in the smallest things.
23. She goes to great lengths to make us feel comfortable and entertained when we come for a visit.
24. She loves my kids and treats them as if they were her own.
25. She takes care of everyone around her.
26. She has lots more patience than I do.
27. She is the most mature seven year old I have ever met.
28. She is the best friend I could ever ask for.