six. Emma is six today. 
These are a few of my favorite things:
–when I get mad, you get mad. But if my feelings get hurt, it really upsets you.
–you take your field guides and journal on every walk.
–everything has "horse" potential and all topics eventually wind their way back to horses.
–for your special birthday activity, you chose having lunch with your daddy
–you still suck your thumb and rub your toes against your heel–it’s why you won’t wear sleepers with feet.
–you know more about what’s going on around the farm than I do and I always ask you for the details
–you sit and read a chapter book for an hour, even though you can’t read them. You even put in a bookmark in the place you left off and come back to it later. You meticulously read through Charlotte’s Web for two weeks. Now you’re reading Misty of Chincoteague.
–you are a fool-proof mood-lifter for Elizabeth. You can pull her out of any crying fit. And you watch out for her–taking paper out of her hands, dragging her away from the bowl of cat food, wiping unmentionables from her nose. It doesn’t even gross you out.
–you still get in bed with me every morning and ask to slip in to the warm spot where I have been sleeping.
–you are as tough as nails and as fragile as a baby bird, all on the same day.
happy six years sweet love of mine. you were my first baby love. you changed my world.
What a lovely, touching post…
And Happy, Happy Birthday Miss Emma – may 6 be your best year yet!
Happy birthday to your beautiful girl!
Happy Birthday to your big girl. This is beautiful.
happy birthday Emma, and to you as well Mama.
Happy Happy Birthday Emma! I love this post, Molly. Hope you had a happy birthday too.
Happy Happy birthday Emma, six is one of the best years.
What a sweet description of such a sweet girl! Happy Birthday!!
Oh, how amazingly wonderful, the girl and the description of her. Happy 6th, Emma. May it be even more wonderful than your dreams.
Beautiful, Mol!
HBD, Em!
Love ya,D
that last one got me good. my (nearly) seven year old J is exactly the same.
Happy Birthday, Emma!
happy Birthday Emma! Hope your day was extra special 🙂
happy birthday emma! and happy day to you too, molly. i always think that this day – the day you became a mother – should be mother’s day.
Happy Birthday! From what you say, Molly, this child has a spirit as lovely as her little face.
How sweet… Happy Birthday Emma!
H*a*p*p*y**B*i*r*t*h*d*a*y**!*!**
Wow, 6. Happy Birthday Emma.
What sweet words, happy birthday Emma. Life is just as it should be for six. Simple, full of wonder and joy.
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What i was trying to say was Happy Birthday in Welsh..Penblwydd Hapus!
Happy Birthday Emma. And what lovely remembrances to mark the occasion Mama.
Happy sixth birthday gorgeous!
What a beautiful post about a special girl. It is a wonderful gift for both of you to be able to look back on these words and remember Emma at six.I love that she “reads” chapter books for an hour…that is so sweet.Happy Birthday Emma!
Happy Birthdy, Emma – you’ll be really reading those chapter books in no time.
how beautiful! you both will cherish this when she is grown:( happy birthday, miss emma!
so wonderful -I’m all choked up:)
oh, six. six is such a sweet, bittersweet birthday for a mom. (or at least it was for me :^)
happy birthday to your girl; i loved reading your beautiful tribute.
xoxo
Happy birthday, Emma. This post made me teary. I can only hope to have such a lovely little girl of my own some day.
I am pretty sure you’re describing my daughter. Yep, you must be. (Except the horse part.) Amazing. And Elle will be six in April. Such big girls, they are!
Sounds lovely! Happy, happy birthday!
Oh Molly, way to warm the cockles of my heart!Especially touching is the way she loves and cares for her baby sister. My girl (same age as Mary) loves her baby brother too and my heart always melts a little further each time when she puts on her little high talking voice to encourage him or tell him “good boy” when he does something clever.