fifteen

 

our beauty first baby had her fifteenth birthday on sunday. 

summer was born on a thursday night. i was thirty-eight weeks pregnant and had gone in for my weekly exam only to be told that i was already dilated seven centimeters and would give birth that night. shortly after 10:30pm, i did.

we brought summer home from the hospital in kirkland to the same small town where she has spent the entirety of her life. 

summer is both an old soul and an eternal child. she wears robes and drinks herbal tea and reads books curled up in blankets. she loves an organized space and for things to be just so. she's a loyal friend and sister and is honestly happy for her peers in a way that seems almost unnatural to me. she plays no games and has no hidden agendas. she eschews the spotlight and never wants to steal anyone's thunder. naturally given to giving devotion, she lights up big when that devotion is returned.

summer is a talented and masterful pianist and makes her instrument sing.

quietly contented. sensitive. happiest around people. generous. faithful. a gamer. a coder. loves listening to music and going to dances with her friends. 

it was a dark and rainy, unexpected night when our sweet summer sunshine was born.

FIFTEEN!