Dear Baby Girl,
You are the newest and coolest member of the double digit club! It feels like yesterday when I dreamt of holding you in my arms; hoping to manifest this sentimental glass painting into reality! I never imagined that this little baby I visualized would become a reality...boy! How amazingly beautiful is our dream? We are so honoured to be your parents and a medium that brought you into this world. You have fulfilled our lives and made us so much happier...life is amazingly beautiful with you in our life, my darling girl!
This year has been really interesting; you got to spend time with both your grandparents and have an early birthday celebration with your extended family, grandparents and all the new friends you made. What a blessed little girl you are. You are so loved and so many people came together to celebrate you and the fact that you are growing up! <3
Appa writes beautiful poetry and he is often a man of few words. When it comes to both of us, not-so-much! We love you with all our hearts and will always support you and love you in every way possible, my munchkin!
you walk on your own path.
stumbling, crawling and scrambling,
moving forward as much as in reverse.
never faltering, never giving up,
until you reach your goal.
you speak your own truth.
through hitherto unknown languages and media;
lucid and insightful, not philosophical,
your theories of life and truth
are often superlative and utopian.
you sing your own tunes.
no years of training to bank on
but creating a thousand songs everyday
inspired masterpieces of art they may not be,
but everyone loves them.
you are graceful.
dance to your own rhythm with no stage fright,
you can perform anywhere, at any time.
at times amusing, mostly graceful
but always entertaining.
you are persistent.
change is constant as is your energy
but with a determined, almost obsessive, single-minded focus.
always doing what you want, when you want to;
even so, no one complains.
you write your own stories
with peerless creativity and imagination;
using any tools and elements you can find.
so advanced are your plots,
they are rarely understood by others.
you are fearless.
of everything that moves or is still.
on the other hand, you are incredibly brave
and do things no one else dares to do
as if there were the simplest tasks.
you live your own life.
away from the all the pervading chaos,
in your own imaginary land.
unaware of the ways of the world and
at peace with yourself and all around.
you are…a Blessing.
We pray to Ummachi to always bless you with abundance of good health, love, happiness and all that your heart desires! You are certainly the most beautiful blessing we have received in our lifetime! We wish you a wonderful year ahead filled with loads of fun, memories, learnings...our sweetest, kindest daughter in the whole wide world!
All our love and blessings,
Amma & Appa
