Why I love my Ellie

I tend to get a little mushy when it comes to the love of my life. That's ok, though...I waited 36 years for her, so I feel like I'm entitled. She just amazes me everyday. I feel so lucky to be the one God chose to watch her grow and learn. She teaches me, too, along the way. She helps me remember that the simple things in life are the greatest---like going to the "wimmy pool" with her, eating ice cream cones, and laughing about the silly songs we make up. We, as adults, get so caught up in the particulars of life. I think children are God's way of telling us to slow down and look around us...and to embrace and feel blessed by the wonderful things we already have. Please do that today. Hug your babies, no matter how old they are...and say a prayer of thanks that they are in your life.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983


Recent "Ellie-isms":

Wimmy pool -- swimming pool, for this she needs her...
Bay-suit ---she has a Dora one, a poohbear one, a Cinderella one, and a few others.
My quinn --you can guess who this is :)
Wizzard--Not from Harry Potter. These are the little green creatures she and Poppy go out looking for.
Tiny Baby -- a trick to make Auntie E rescue her from whatever her evil mother is trying to get her to do, i.e., nap, bath, etc. E carries her around wrapped in a blanket while she points directions with her foot. Spoiled? Nah.
"Dus a minute, I on the puter"--she is where she isn't supposed to be (at my computer) and trying to deflect my attempts to talk her down by acting like she is really busy. Sometimes I even check to see if she is. She's very convincing.