You are beautiful, smart, funny, responsible, helpful, silly, reliable, and tidy. You like to have fun and you like things clean. You like to tell jokes and you like to ask serious questions. You like to quietly draw and craft and you like to loudly run around and ride bike. You are the total package.
You have grown up a great deal in the last year. You are taking on more responsibilities and you have been taking more initiative in doing things that needs to be done like mopping floors, watching babies, doing baths for the little girls, etc...
You are thoughtful person. You think about things and you ask good questions. You pay attention to what is going on at church and in our home and you want to know more about it. You like the Bible and you like it when I read it to you at night. You also like listening to songs about the Bible. God is moving in you and I can see Him at work in the kind of things you get excited about.
You know what you think. You recognize when someone in a movie or a video says or does something that we would not say or do. You don't like it when people tell the story wrong. You love God and your family and you don't like things that come against either. You take after me well in that regard.
Unfortunately, you also after me in that you get lots of headaches. I did when I was a kid as well. I still do now, but far less than I used to. Hopefully it is the same for you. I am hoping that it gets better for you as it did for me. Headaches are no fun, but you handle them pretty well. You don't make a big production out of it. You get tummy aches as well, but you don't exaggerate them. You do your best to soldier on. That is not easy to do and you do a good job at it. You are better at that than I was when I was a kid.
You are a good daughter, a good sister, and a good friend. You love your mom and your sisters and your friends at church and you do nice things for them when you're able. You like being friendly.
Lastly, a list about Callista could not be complete without addressing your love of bracelets. If you had a dollar for every bracelet you have, the world would be out of dollars... and bracelets. No one else would be able to buy a bracelet from you because you'd have all the money and you'd still have all the bracelets.
I love you Lissa Lou and I hope you have a very wonderful birthday. We are all grateful for you and we love that God made you part of our family.
So, here's to Callista!
Love,
Dad
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