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Dear darling Peach-<\/p>\n

How did this happen?\u00c2\u00a0 Somewhere along the line three became magical. You became magical. And now you are four. So I need to give you a little snapshot of where you are and what you do right now.<\/p>\n

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One evening right before bed, you brought me a card you made and put it on my bedside table. You said that if I missed you during the night, I could just look across at the card and see it and know that you loved me.<\/p>\n

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You are a tremendous artist who prefer your people to have very pointy teeth. But hearts on dresses Of course.<\/p>\n

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You are still a very big fan of orange, although pink and purple are making serious headway.<\/p>\n

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You are writing your ABCs and words quite nicely, although the letter K is still proving to be most troublesome.<\/p>\n

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You like sweets. A lot.<\/p>\n

You, dear girl, still need\u00c2\u00a0 your nap, even though you fight it EVER SINGLE DAY and then pass out for one and a half hours.<\/p>\n

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Nothing delights you more than pretend play. I love watching you act out different stories with your dolls, animals, crayons or anything that happens to be around.<\/p>\n

Although a good game of hide and seek is always appreciated. You always choose the same hiding spots and giggle to give yourself away. You like be found.<\/p>\n

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You’re negotiation skills are maddingly good. So good that I plan to send you in the next time we have to buy a car.<\/p>\n

No one can make a better felt sandwich than you can!\u00c2\u00a0 Who wouldn’t care for a bite of a tuna salami cookie crepe sandwich?<\/p>\n

I think you enjoy the tutus more than ballet class–just like your mama.<\/p>\n

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I love your love of old songs.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing is dearer to me than hearing you sing, “Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy”. Or the songs you make up.<\/p>\n

You love the idea of a board game, but enjoy playing with the pieces of the game more than actually playing the game.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve served me many a pie made up of pieces from the Hi Ho Cherrio game…<\/p>\n

And you are mine. Mine. Ours. And I love you to the moon and back and then some.\u00c2\u00a0 Happy birthday, sweet Peach!<\/p>\n

And I hope you like your very very special present…I’ll share it all with you next week!<\/p>\n

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