ten years ago today, my life changed forever. my ‘little girl,’ talitha joy, was born on september 18, 1999. it is still the proudest moment of my life.
i surprised her with tickets to the miley cyrus concert at the staples center. oh the lengths to which parents will go to sacrifice for their children! ;-)
as i said in the dedication of my book:
Finally, I wish to thank my daughter, Talitha Joy. Tali, you are the girl I’ve always loved and you are the reason I rise in the morning. May I live each day in an effort to show you that life can be lived with adventure, discovery, knowledge, faith, hope, kindness, laughter, love, and peace. I love you Tali. You will always be my little girl.
happy birthday tali. you will always be my little girl.
daddy
- Tali at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
- Tali at the Coldplay concert with daddy.
- At UCLA’s doctoral hooding ceremony with daddy.
- At UCLA’s doctoral hooding ceremony with daddy.
- Tali at Yosemite with daddy.
- Tali in snowball fight with daddy at Yosemite.
- Tali at Yosemite National Park with daddy.
- Tali at Yosemite National Park.
- Carving pumpkins on the front porch.
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10′s an important age. she needs a cell phone and a new porsche!
;-)
tell her i hope she has a fantastically memorable birthday and she’s quite a beauty.
tali and i agree that porches (and their drivers) suck, but she wants my old iphone badly. at ten!. when i was ten, i wanted a mud pit.
when I was ten I wanted a cello. I didn’t get one but I got lessons and the school cello. I got my own one eventually…
Happy birthday Talitha. Such a beautiful name – I suppose she’ll always be young. Great photos, but too much snow! Go to the beach!