Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Things I Love

Well, for starters:
This kid.

I love her many facial expressions.

I love the way she's mixed up the words "boo boo" and "ouchie" and now refers to all little scrapes and bruises as "boobies."

I love how she calls her dearly beloved bunny "Bun" and anything that looks remotely like Charlie Brown's dog "Snoop."

I love how I could hear her shouting across the entire bookstore this morning, "Mommy! Something's coming out of my bottom!" I love that - I really do. It made me laugh. She makes me laugh, when very few other things do.

I love that she is one hundred percent completely herself. I love that she has not yet learned to care about what she sees in the mirror. I even love that she has a knack for saying the very wrong thing at the very wrong time. Someday she will grow out of that, and I will miss it.

I love that she does not accept easy answers even as I want to strangle her for asking yet another question.

And I love that wherever she is, it is easy to see, to remember, the whole earth really is filled with His glory. Not just Notre Dame Cathedral, but McDonald's. Not just the Grand Canyon, but a broken-down playground in Nowheresville, USA.

What a gift that is!

What a gift she is, to me.

4 comments:

Rebecca said...

Ahhh! How did her hair get so long? Such a big girl! She is gorgeous.

Lindsey said...

Absolutely love this, Stephanie!

Anonymous said...

She's a beautiful girl inside and out:) gives you a wonderful reason to get out of bed everyday and face the world as it is not necessarily as you wish it would be.
Love,
Ruth

Anonymous said...

AMEN, well said.

BW