26 things I love about you

Your 26th birthday just passed. We spent this week consumed with birthday dates and anniversary celebrations, and I missed the moment to write you something lovely. I wrote you a long card, but I owe you more so now I'm writing you a list. Perhaps if you were turning 260000 I might be able to create a more comprehensive list, but for now I'll settle with 26 of the big and little things that make life with you such a blessing.

1. I love how you dream big and aim high, you never give up on your goals
2. I love the cheeky smile on your face when you attempt to be sneaky
3. I love your sense of humour and your lacking sense of direction
4. I love the delicious and overly complex dinners that you make for me
5. I love your signature dance
6. I love that you don't believe you have a signature dance
7. I love how I always feel at home with you
8. I love your weird and unnatural love for inspirational sports movies
9. I love that you believe in me when I don't believe in myself
10. I love that you always know how to calm me down in a crisis
11. I love how astute you are about people and their true natures
12. I love how impossible it is for you to hide your glee
13. I love the sound of your heart beating when you hold me tight
14. I love your evenhandedness - and how you can use this to make me see reason
15. I love your inexplicable love for spreadsheets
16. I love your drunken, but very serious, speeches about the honour of taking a knee
17. I love that when I ask you to come over and give me seven kisses, you always give me nine. One for luck and one because you say I deserve more than I think.
18. I love that you are like a kid at Christmas when you talk about fish or groundwater hydrology or your Honours project or Rocky Balboa
19. I love your big blue eyes
20. I love how you are the only person I can be sure won't tune out when I go on a nonsense rant about nothing in particular
21. I love your chivalry
22. I love your kind and gentle heart
23. I love how you make Harry Potter references just to humour me
24. I love the quiet, perfect nights we spend together simply enjoying one another's company
25. I love your pirate mojitos
26. I love waking up to your beautiful face every morning
27. I love the plans we make together
28. I love that you are always growing, but always, always, you

(plus one for luck and one because you always deserve more)