Four

FAVORITE BOOK: The Book with No Pictures & Is There a Dog in This Book?

FAVORITE TV SHOW: "Kiwi's" (PeeWee's) Playhouse

FAVORITE FOOD: Quesadillas

FAVORITE COLOR: Pink

FAVORITE MOVIE: Frozen Fever

FAVORITE SONG: Let it Go

BEST FRIEND: Adalae!

WHEN I GROW UP: I will have a lot of jobs. A doctor job, for people and animals. A cowgirl job. And a mommy job.

FAVORITE THING TO PLAY: Elsa and Anna

FAVORITE THING TO DO AT SCHOOL: Be the weather person

FAVORITE TOY: Pet animals (Beanie babies)

FAVORITE THING TO DO WITH MOMMY: Go places

FAVORITE THING TO DO WITH DADDY: Look at cat videos

NOW THAT I AM FOUR, I WANT TO: Reach high things on the shelf, go on the big slide at Chuck-E-Cheese.

Some more Anouk at four facts: she definitely prefers "Anouk" to "Anne;" has jumped on the horse-crazy train about eight years early; is fascinated by baby animals; spends her mornings creating "inventions" out of ribbon and paper clips; says to me at least a dozen times a day, "Can I keep you forever?"; knows six words in French and makes up dozens more; takes regular breaks to shake her sillies out; loves to sing the Amen song from chapel; loves her friends so, so much; is the worlds biggest extrovert, much to the surprise of her introverted mother; is generous to a fault (we have to stop her giving away everything she owns); made me and James promise to go with her when she goes away to college (we readily agreed but won't hold her to it). Basically, she is a ball of equal parts silliness and sweetness and we love her to pieces.

We're continuing our tradition this year of donating to March of Dimes on Anne's birthday. And we hope you will consider doing the same if you can! Just in the four years since A. was born the treatments and prognoses for prematurity have changed so much and it feels awesome to think that we have helped in some small, with our tiny bit of support, to make it that fewer babies and families have to worry about being born too soon. I can't think of a better way to celebrate our girl and to celebrate her life so far.