Happy Birthday Baby Sister

Today is my baby sisters birthday. Most people know her by the name that is printed on her birth certificate but to me she is "Squid." Why squid? I don't know, it just had a nice ring to it. Squid is such an amazing little musician and artist it is hard to believe she is only 15. She wanted a guitar so bad so my parents bought her the learning musician (piece of wood with strings) from Target and told her that if she wrote some of her own songs by Christmas, they would buy her a new one. She not only wrote a couple, I believe she wrote around 13. She is such a natural and has the most beautiful strong voice, next time you see her with her guitar in tow, remember to ask to hear a song. Squid and I have lots of fun together and love to get together and "jam" on our guitars and I love that. So here are 15 little interesting facts about her...

1- From age 1-3 she believed she was a lion... Scar from Lion King to be exact. She would hide under the table in nursery, clawing and growling at helpless toddlers saying, "Me am Scaw (Scar)."

2- From age 3- hmm 11 she believed she was a horse, she had a beautiful trot and canter. It was so funny to see her on her hands and knees trotting around the living room.

3- She would always come up with the funniest facial expressions/phrases, like this one, "eat your heart out paper boy."

4- She drew/draws so many horse pictures, she could wall paper the white house.

5- When she laughs, she wheezes like an old man. The only way to describe it is a silent cackle.

6- She makes a mean peanut butter and chocolate chip soup in the microwave.

7- She is an ace of cakes. We stayed up until 2 AM making my mom's special bday cake and she had done such a good job before my idioticness destroyed it the next morning (post coming soon.)

8- She is a very good writer. Her small little stories that she began writing years ago surpass regular children's.

9- She is musically talented, her amazing piano skills, guitar skills and singing skills are all self taught.

10- She has a very contagious smile, and can hunt out the best commercials/YouTube videos.

11- She is also a softball player and this is a direct quote from her after hitting a home run, "Can't I just wave to the crowd and sit down? It isn't fair I have to run all the way around the bases."

12- She and I spent two hours doing nothing but making stupid cell phone videos and sending them to Mitchell after eating an entire asphalt pie. My kind of sleepover.

13- She has seen Spirit, Stallion of the Cimmaron more times than the video editors.

14- She has seen Phantom of the Opera more times than the video editors.

15- She would probably stake outside of Edward Cullen's house until she died if he were real.

Love you Squid! Squidly! Squidiot!