I’m a few hours late with this. Laura turned 8 years old Saturday. I know this sounds like a cliche, but it’s hard to believe that my little baby girl is growing up so fast. In true Laura fashion she planned her own birthday party, which included calling her grandmothers and telling them what they needed to cook and bring.

Laura and I have decided that Little Miss Magic by Jimmy Buffett is our song. Here are a few lyrics and pictures of my Little Miss Magic over the past 8 years.

Constantly amazed by the blades of the fan on the ceiling
The clever little glances she gives me can’t help but be appealing
She loves to ride into town with the top down
Feel that warm breeze on her gentle skin
She is my next of kin

Chorus:
I see a little more of me everyday
I catch a little more moustache turning gray
Your mother is the only other woman for me
Little miss magic, what you gonna be?

Sometimes I catch her dreamin and wonder where that little mind meanders
Is she strollin along the shore or cruisin oer the broad savannah
I know someday she’ll learn to make up her own rhymes
Someday she’s gonna learn how to fly
Oh that I wont deny

Chorus:
I catch a little more dialogue comin my way
I see those big brown eyes just start to lookin astray
Your mothers still the only other woman for me
Little miss magic, what you gonna be?

Yes she loves to ride into town with the top down
Feel that warm breeze on her gentle skin
She is my next of kin

Constantly amazed by the blades of the fan on the ceiling
Those clever little looks she gives just can’t help but be appealing
I know someday shell learn to make up her own rhymes
One day she’s gonna learn how to fly
That I wont deny

Chorus:
I see a little more of me everyday
I feel a little more moustache turning gray
Your mother’s still the only other woman for me
Little miss magic, what you gonna be?
Little miss magic, what you gonna be?
Little miss magic, just can’t wait to see

Its raining, it’s pouring
Your old man is snoring

It all started here, December 20, 2002

We took Laura to the beach with us the summer before she was born.

August 6, 2003

Big brothers checked out all the equipment before she was born.

I bought her this little pink bear at the hospital gift shop the day she was born, and she still sleeps with it 8 years later.

Helping Mom make a grocery list

Angie gives Laura her first haircut.

She spent Christmas Eve 2003 in the same gown that Natalie wore on her first Christmas in 1973.

Laura shares some of her first birthday cake with me.

Playing war games with her brothers

When we moved to our new house in 2005, she didn’t want to sleep in her new bedroom, and spent the next nine months sleeping on
a recliner in our bedroom.

Little Mary Poppins

Kissing mommy

In the shadows with Nolan

Her little pink bear still in tow

You’re all grown up now (or at least it seems that way)

Happy Birthday Laura Kathryn!!!!