Birthdays have been a really big deal in the Sloop family since I could ever remember because my Grandpa Sloop is the "Birthday King". He can make any one have an absolutely amazing birthday! Nicole seems to think that her birthday should be some sort of "National Holiday" or something so I will make a post in honor of her today!
Nicole is my second older sister and is about 6 years older than I am. She has always been a great example to me and I have always liked to look up to her for things...but some things in particular....
1. When Nicole and I were younger and sharing a bedroom I used to bother the crap out of her. Every time she had a new "Favorite Color" I would magically have the exact same one. For some reason I felt as though I always needed the same favorite color and now interestingly enough my favorite color happens to be yellow just like hers. (I will admit to copying)
2. Nicole used to always clean our bedroom while listening to the backstreet boys and Nsync and she would blast it while singing along, because of that & how "Cool" I thought she was while doing it....to this day I still blast my Taylor Swift music while singing loudly when I clean.
3. Although you may think that I always copy Nicole...I have also done the opposite. I can clearly recall Nicole hating Peas SO much that she would refuse to eat them at dinner, my parents forced her to eat them one night and she flat out threw them up everywhere over the balcony. Because I wanted to be an annoying little sister I instantly began to love Peas and I would eat them ONLY because I knew she hated them.... & Now thanks to her Peas are my favorite vegetable. So thank you.
4. Nicole has always had a great talent of doing hair. She always had her friends over before school dances so that she could do their hair for them. Because of that I thought I was good at hair too (Genetics right?) ....Wrong. I told my cousin Sam that I could do her hair for her senior prom a few years back just thinking that I would be naturally good at it...fortunately after lots of tears and me re-doing her hair 5 times it turned out to be something presentable and I realized at that point...Nicole really did have a talent, I am just a wannabe.
(She even does my hair!)
5. Now that we are closer to the same point in our lives we have a lot more to talk about together. Nicole has helped me a TON throughout my pregnancy so far and even showed me some stretch marks that I get to look forward too after this little nugget is born. YAY! haha But In all honesty I can only hope that I look as good as Nicole does after 2 children because she is a smokin' mommy if I do say so myself ;)
All in all Nicole has been a best friend and a great person to copy for the last 18 years of my life! I hope she has the best "National Holdiday" of a Birthday today! I love you!
Happy Birthday,
Brooklyn Cook
you are so sweet : )
ReplyDeleteAww this is adorable!!! And did I really cry when you did my hair? I only remember it looking good in the end haha so I guess you were scarred more then I was!
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