March 22

Big day today! My baby girl is 7! We tried to make it as special as possible - everything from decorating her door and mirror to taking cookies for her class to help her celebrate today. We had a great taco dinner and the Thomas crew joined us for the party.

Hannah has turned into such a sweet, kind, funny and amazing little girl. I recently leaned from her teacher that Hannah voluntarily helps one of her classmates who is autistic and needs "a buddy." She does things like help him get to the right bus and she sits with him at lunch. In Hannah's words "He just needs a little extra help sometimes, mom. He is funny and I like to help him."

I can't tell you how proud I am of this little girl. She genuinely has compassion and wants to help others. That is something we can't necessarily teach her - I think she just wants to do good.