Six.

Miss Norah Bean, 

Today you're six. I haven't been posting here lately, but I've been photographing you and your brother just the same almost every single day. We've been filling every daylight hour, and sometimes hours way into the evening, with so.much.FUN. 

Six seems old. I say that every year. Maybe it's because I miss you as a baby. Your chubbiness. Your baby talk. Seeing you discover every little thing for the very first time... but then I remember how much fun you are now and I realize I would never want to give that up. 

You're an amazing little person. You are so sweet and kind and funny and smart. You've given your last dollar to your little brother. You want to give your toys away to all the children who don't have toys. You are even nice to the bully at school. It makes me incredibly sad that there was a bully in your Kindergarten class, but it makes my heart swell to hear you say "I'm still nice to him Mom, because he needs someone to show him how he should treat his friends." even after he was not at all nice to you.

You are a jokester (and an actress too). One fine kindergarten Wednesday, I picked you up from your morning class and you proceeded to inform me in a very upset tone that I had forgotten to come to the class event that day! I argued saying I didn't know about an event and if there was one I hadn't signed up to volunteer. You countered my argument by telling me Ms. Sisler had been expecting me and she was upset that I hadn't shown up! You kept this up through our walk home only revealing the truth when we walked inside the house saying "Just kidding! There was no event today!!" Very funny Miss Bean :)

This week you're going to summer camp. Daddy brings you to the bus in the morning where you get on with two of your best friends who you've known since preschool. You go off to a place where Daddy and I have never been with teacher's we've never met to do dangerous things like swimming, boating, archery, horseback riding and campfires... then in the afternoon I wait at that stop and can't wait to see you come off that bus! I was a nervous wreck. Now I can see you are having the time of your life and I am so excited for you. You're so grown up. I love it and hate it at the same time! (I mostly love it)

Here's to my gorgeous grown-up six year old who's got the world at her feet and a family who loves her to pieces. 

By the way, your current life plan is to marry your best friend Allegra and adopt a baby that doesn't have a family. See... I told you you are sweet!

This Morning wearing very grown up clip-on earrings:



"Do you know that at night, rocks from the Moon fall to the Earth? These are Moon Rocks!"


No training wheels!


Beach Bums

Chocolate Breakfast

Surprise! Your best friend is at the water park!!

Shark Attack

My photog partner



Love you to pieces Bean ~ Mom