She's Nine!

*Edited to hopefully fix most of my irregular verbs, due to not deciding if I was talking to her or about her! I guess I had been doing a little of both in my heart.
And to thank you for the sweet comments...how nice to be able to print this out (comments and all) for her to save and read years from now...

In some ways, it seems almost yesterday that she was just a tiny thing...my first little baby...
She was so girlie and delicate looking even then.

But looks can be a little deceiving which she's proved as she's grown.
A little "Bam-Bam", really, in a sweet little girl's form...moving big chairs around when she was only one and a half, during a new mom's group.


And in a few ways, kind of like George Bailey's father said of the main character in "It's a Wonderful Life", she has always seemed as though she was "born old"... almost like she was a big sister before she actually became one.

On the other hand, she has been my little "drama princess", always wrestling with those emotions that can come with force, and then leave just as quickly...like a summer storm.

She is my graceful ballerina one day..my silly one the next...and my thoughtful reader and writer after that.
And she's growing so fast!

Wasn't it just the other day that she had her first party with all her little friends, and blew out three candles?

Now she's turning nine today.

She is just half grown. Learning who she is and who she wants to become...and learning to love and trust her Lord.

I want to treasure every moment!

Happy Birthday, Sweetie Girl!