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Busy Philipps celebrates her daughter Birdie’s 16th birthday!
On Tuesday, August 13, Girls Club – Be careful, they bite! The 44-year-old actress shared a sweet carousel of photos on Instagram as she celebrated Birdie’s 16th birthday. She posted 20 photos from her 16 years of life, including adorable throwbacks of baby Birdie and some sweet current snaps of the mother-daughter duo.
“🎂Happy 16th birthday my Bird🎂,” wrote Philipps, who has children Birdie and Cricket (10) with her ex Marc Silverstein, in her caption.
Her detailed caption continued, “There is absolutely no one like you in the world Birdie Leigh Silverstein. I am continually in awe that you are my child (but I am also SORRY but you are SO MY CHILD – your RBF is proof).”
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“You are the absolute funniest, smartest, greatest, best and have a mind like no one has ever met before. Literally every person who has ever spent time with you would agree,” she wrote.
With ABBA’s “Slipping Through My Fingers” playing in the background of her post, she shared: “The fact that you played this song on repeat for me when I dropped you off at boarding school and regularly made TikToks just to make me cry just proves that you are an icon.”
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“Here are 20 of the 200,000 or so pictures of you from the last 16 years. I love you more than anything in the world my chicken 💕✨,” she concluded the post.
The mother of two also shared a video on her Instagram stories in which she talks about Birdie’s birth and holds back her tears as she looks back on this important moment.
Already in May Girls5Eva The actress shared even more throwbacks of her little ones on Instagram in honor of Mother’s Day.
Philipps repeatedly wrote “then and now” in her caption and ended it with “then and now,” inserting photos of her daughters from their childhood and from just a few months ago.
