Wow

I say this about a million times a day...wow. This daughter of mine amazes me. Every day she says some new word, does some new trick, shows me in some new amazing way that she's growing up. It just blows your mind to remember that little floppy lima bean that we brought home from the hospital a year and a half ago and to see her now... Here are a few of her latest mind-blowing antics: (OK...so they're probably only mind-blowing to ME...but that's okay)

Just a few minutes ago she was bouncing on the couch beside me saying "Up and down, up and down!" First time I ever heard her put those together!

Yesterday she would open the cupboard doors where we keep the pots and pans and declare "Open." Then she would carefully close them and declare "Closed." We've done this concept with other things (boxes, my hand) but never with the cupboards, so she is understanding the concept and applying it herself!

We used the Thomas ploy to see if that would help her in the church nursery last week and it did! After church the lady who is in charge of the nursery came up and said that she had to tell me something. She said another little girl in the nursery was crying and one of the workers was carrying her. Betsy followed them around offering Thomas to the little girl, trying to make her feel better. Talk about warming a mother's heart!

Every time Elmo comes on she screams with joy. This isn't all that mind-blowing, but it sure is cute!

Earlier this week she came into the room declaring "Shoe! Good job!" She had put on her shoe all by herself...the correct foot and everything!

Most mornings I bring her to bed with me so we can get another hour of sleep. This morning she woke up face to face with me, looked at me, smiled, and then gave me a big kiss on the lips.

She wants to help with whatever we're doing. She'll unload the dishwasher and hand us the dishes one by one so we can put them away. She also likes to put the clothes in the washer or dryer. One day I found her at the cat's food dish with the plastic pitcher of food trying to feed the cat!

She's becoming quite the singer. We listen to a CD of Sunday School kids songs when we're in the car so the minute we head for the car she starts singing "Always, always" (The Lord is my Shepherd, I'll walk with him always; Always, always, I'll walk with Him always.) She can sing, pitch perfect, the first three notes of the Sesame Street theme.
She loves the "Hot Dog" song from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The last verse of it says "We're splittin' the scene, we're full of beans." So she sings, "Hot dog, hot dog...scene...beans." Then she sings the instrumental part and says, "See soon!" since Mickey always ends it with "See ya real soon!"



There are so many sweet, neat little things she does every day that I can't remember them all. What fun it is to watch this little gal discover the world!