Dottie's Dedication

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6

Pastor Steve asking us if we need help raising these two precious girls. I love the expressions on all of our faces.

I am pretty sure we are all in agreement....YES!

We can not do it alone.

Our Happy Little Family

Steve had just made reference to Mary Margo being a good big sister.

She just radiated after that.

Happy Parents

Here we are again with the cake!

That's enough partying for one day. Sweet girl was worn out!

My Little Margie!

Is not so little anymore!

Seriously where has the time gone.

She turned 4 on August 25th and

even though I find it hard to believe at times she has made it the

BEST FOUR YEARS OF MY LIFE!

Here is the sassy little missy posing at the splash park before her Birthday Party!

Best present ever - 12 itty bitty nail polishes, glittery lip gloss and a role of bubble gum tape.

Look at these precious little girls. Can't you just hear them all saying "Oooooo" at the new pink My Little Pony.

Mary Margo and some of her gal pals. Jayme, Abigail, and Alana.

On the actual day, she gets to open her presents from us. She got some pink sparkly TOMS and a doctor's kit.

And of course, her first patient was Dottie. (Poor little girl) She was REAL sick. She got a shot, or SHOTTER as Mary Margo refers to it, and her blood pressure was a little high so we had to check it too.

Celebrating with a cupcake from Gigi's!

It is so funny to me that on her first birthday, she would not touch the cake. All we wanted was for her to dig in and she wouldn't do it.

Well, every birthday since this is how she does it!

With no coaxing at all she just sticks her face right on in the icing.

On the Night You were Born

On the night you were born

the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars

peeked into see you and the night winds whispered

Life will never be the same....

You know those moments in life...the ones you just want bottle up and close the lid down tight. So, one day, far from now you can reopen it and remember every little detail. The way Dottie's sleepy smile was in perfect timing to the story. The way Mary Margo got so quietly excited when I interjected her name in the story and said her birth date at the very end. Her eyes would light up and she tightened all her muscles as if she were going to squeal but nothing came out.

Well, I had one of those moments tonight. There we were, Mary Margo, Dottie and me reading books all curled up in Mary Margo's bed.

Mary Margo said, "you wanna read that special book?"

That special book is On the Night you were Born by Nancy Tillman. I have read it so many times to Mary Margo that I memorized it and would just recited it to her each night before bed. We haven't read it in a very long time. But tonight she wanted to read it and read it and read it! It made my heart SO Happy. We would read it for her and then read it for Dottie and then repeat. I read it about 6 times but I would have read it 1 million if I could stay there, right there in that moment.