Thirteen

Today, our baby is a teenager. What a year she's had.  She grew like a weed, getting stronger and faster with each passing week.  She continues to love playing soccer, sometimes as much as seven days a week.  This year, she's put in an impressive amount of work off the field - running, lifting and doing what she needs to do to get better all the time.  She fell in love with basketball over the winter and is liking lacrosse more and more every time she steps on the field.  We are proud of her work ethic in the classroom - two weeks at Choate over the summer, a trip to the state invention convention, high honors and an aptitude for math (not sure where that comes from).  Her best friends, not surprisingly, are the girls who live and breathe soccer just like she does - in particular, her car pool crew, the girls that run with her all summer.  She's looking forward to a summer of fun and one more year of middle school - but she's already looking down the road to high school.  Happy birthday to our silly, funny, sporty, smart, beautiful Emily.  We can't wait to see what you do this year!