Eleven!

Clara, you are so independent these days, so wise, so confident, so responsible, so capable. You amaze us every day with the things you can do, and with all of that growing up you've been doing. Rest assured, though, you will always, ALWAYS be our baby girl. We're so proud of you, and we love you to distant galaxies and back. :)

January 11, 2001
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And, before the celebration among the streamers (above), some other moments of today:Happy eleventh birthday, Honeybun!

A footnote: It's harder than you'd think to come up with eleven years' worth of birthday portraits, when your child's first eleven years span three cameras (one film and two digital), four computers, two Shutterfly accounts, one defunct zip drive, one malfunctioning external hard drive, a couple of misplaced thumb drives, and a few half-completed scrapbooks. Argh!