~Day 2• 112: What do we call her?

This little miss turned 7 today.  I cannot believe it.  She is our youngest and it's kind of hard to fathom that this will be our last 7 year old.  We are trying to enjoy our kids as much as possible, because time is flying by very quickly.  

The young picture on the left is when she was probably around a year old.  I can't remember for sure.  I do remember the name we called her.  She had a cute, bald and rather large head when she was a baby.  We lovingly called her cue ball.  She grew out of that and grew into her cute head.  She is a fun little girl with a big personality.  She is constantly surprising us.  She is always coming up with some goofy dance, or a song or  something funny that makes us smile.  She loves her books.  She loves to use her imagination.  She loves music.  She loves to laugh and giggle.  She loves to be tickled.  And she loves to cuddle.  And the thing that always gets me is how concerned she is for others. She has her moments, like everyone, when we wonder if she will survive the night because of her attitude... but for the most part she is very loving.  She is always thinking about her siblings.  She wants to include them in things.  She wants to share with them something she bought.  If she is picking out a game or a movie, she is concerned if they will like to watch or play it with her.  She is a tiny little thing with a big heart.

She used to fit in our laps, but now she is all limbs hanging out all over the place.  We sure love our little 'Beans.'  And I don't know exactly how she got that nickname.  I think we just started calling her Cailee Beans, and it stuck.  She will tell you that her full name is Cailee Beans Cardona.  Or just Beans.  We love our cute little Cailee.

Cailee wanted to take a treat to school to share with her classmates, so we went to the dollar store to see if there was anything she wanted to take.  Nothing there, but... she saw the balloons and proceeded to tell me that I could get her some balloons so she would be surprised in the morning.  I told her if she knew about it, it wouldn't be a surprise.  She said she would be surprised anyway.  So she got some balloons.

Birthdays at our house are pretty low-key.  Sometimes the kids wake up to balloons in the living room.  Sometimes they don't. I am not a 'party mom,' so we celebrate with family.  That is how I celebrated my birthdays growing up, and I survived.  I just can't handle 50 little kids running around... So we do cake and ice cream and gifts.  It's enough :)

She did get a 'Frozen' cake.  It was pretty and it was chocolate and it was yummy.  She had fun trying to blow out her candles.  She told me not to put on trick candles (like I did for Ashton) but I didn't know what candles were trick or not.  She had some.  It was fun to watch her spit on the cake.  And yes, she did spit.  I think that's why John didn't have any...

Alissa and John and JJ came over to celebrate.  JJ looked like he wanted to go swimming in the fish tank.  He was intrigued in it.  I think he liked it more than he liked the ice cream and cake his parents tried to feed him.  His face was cute when he tasted them.

Cailee is a lucky girl.  Aunt Sa gave her an art book, featuring Petshops.  It's similar to a book that Brookie has, and they are both excited to be able to draw and color together.  She also received several books, including her favorite "If you give a moose a muffin," and a "Pinkalicious" coloring book.  Her face when she opened them was cute and when she hugged her books, it made me smile.

I think she had a good day.  I still can't believe my baby is now 7.  Happy Birthday, Cailee Beans.