almost a teenager

Yesterday my baby girl turned twelve years old.
Being my first, my oldest, tristan holds a special spot in the family. She is the one i rely on to help out, to make fighting this tide of children a little easier. And she is easy. She is such an amazing girl.
She is so easy to be around and parent. She does well in school, does well in every activity she tries, has an amazing sense of humour – she loves life.
Together we share a passion for books and sleep. We would be perfect roomies.
Tristan had a bit of a tough year this year. Middle school showed such promise to her, but led to her first experience of being shunned by classmates. She also broke her leg very badly in september which did not help. She ended up going back to her little private school in november and has been thriving there.
She is the lead in her class play and cracks everybody up with her theatrics and improv.
For her party we went to a tree top adventure/zip line place and she was disappointed that they had to go on the lower course. I hate to see her sad so i bought her a ticket to the "Canyon Zip." I didn't actually "look" at the course she was going to do before she did it and when i watched her run toward the platform my stomach leaped into my chest and straight out my mouth. The thought of her zipping along a wire several hundred feet in the air was a combination of all my biggest fears into one horror show i paid for and was about to watch.
Tristan, on the other hand, had absolutely no fear and smiled and laughed the whole way and screamed as loud as she could to her friends as she zipped by "HARRY POTTER IS BETTER THAN TWILIGHT!!"
I love my girl so much, she makes me smile every single day.