This morning we were excitedly expecting some dear friends over for a play date so I had made muffins to share. Right before they arrived Abigail came to the kitchen asking for one. I told her that her friend was about to arrive and she replied: "Aww... I love her Mommy. Her my best friend!" My heart melted as I heard those sweet words come from her mouth! This was her first time to say on her own that someone was her best friend!
Our current season of parenting a two, almost three year old, and a fifteen month old is full of so many fun moments, new memories, crazy emotions, and frequent opportunities to trust God and lean on His grace!
Our girls are growing up so much! Abigail will talk till you're blue in the face when she gets on a roll and literally this week Kaitlin has suddenly decided to start talking! She's been saying "dada" and "mama" and "dish" (this?). However TODAY she said "ba" for ball for the first time ever! The last day or two she has been trying to say please too! It sounds more like "peese"! Haha... I am SO excited to hear her little voice as she starts articulating more! She has started babbling a ton at fifteen months too. I guess this is her gearing up to be our second little chatter box!
Abigail has such a caring and sweet heart for her sister and friends! Even though some days I feel like my girls have constant cat-fights, the love I see them pour out on each other is just precious! Abigail loves being our helper and can really do so much on her own! Plus... She is such a "Potty Princess" as she calls herself (thanks to a potty training moving she saw about potty princesses!)!! It seems to finally be clicking with her to pee in the potty. I still usually have to prompt her (although several times she has told me when she needs to go) but she has many days now that we have no pee accidents! We're still working on the other part. Haha...
Abigail is also so girly! She loves shoes, purses, fun clothes, sparkles ("sparklies" as she calls them), playing tea party, making pretend coffee, helping me make dinner, etc...
Some of her cute sayings right now:
"I want.... it's my favorite!"
"Actually... No." Or "Actually... Yes." Or "Actually... Sure."
When praying: "Dear Jesus, Mommy's a girl, Daddy's a boy, Sissy's just a baby and A-gurl (Abigail) is a Potty Princess. Jesus loves me. Amen" 😃
Abigail is one of the most genuine and loving little girls ever. While she shys away from new people and is most animated when she's around her closest friends and family, she still loves to be around other kids and join them in playing. Recently, we babysat a sweet little three month old girl and Abigail just loved it! She brought her toys, talked to her, told me about her nose, mouth, and eyes, and gave such sweet little smiles as she watched me feed the baby her bottle. I could quickly tell that whenever we Lord-willing, have another baby, she will be a marvelous little mommy to it!
Kaitlin is our little one who is FULL of life! This little missy loves people, loves exploring, loves being outside, loves snuggling and giggling, loves climbing, and loves being "just as big" as her older sister!
She does not miss a beat in life! When she falls she rarely cries much, she loves doing her own little thing and being in her own little world, and she is so chilled! (Until she gets upset, and then people, move out of the way! Haha! This kid has some lungs!😉)
So many times I have found Kaitlin hanging out by herself in Abigail's room. She takes her snack and just goes and sits all by herself at their little table and chairs. Haha... At first it surprised me but now I have come to realize that if I don't see her there's a good chance she's just hanging out in her sister's room. She loves it too! She's so happy just doing her own little thing! I love it!
I love watching her little personality unfold as she gets older. She loves to watch Abigail and try to do things like her. She wants to help push the stroller too, or ride on the bike, or eat the whole apple, or play up in Abigail's big girl bed.
Kaitlin is also pretty fearless! She chases the vacuum, goes straight to the edge of steps (and gives that mischievous grin, knowing she's not supposed to be there), carries around a 5lb. ball, carries a play chair from the back of our home in A's room out into the living room, etc... She just goes with the flow of life and embraces whatever her little heart wants to do.
This also has recently included taking things from Abigail and running full speed away from her. Oh, the fun days ahead of training our sweet but "stinkerish" little second born that she cannot have everything she wants. 😀
Parenting our little girls is truly such a blessing and the absolute best job in the world!! I wouldn't trade it for anything! Even though the days can be long and ever so tiresome, they are blessed days, filled with many reminders of my desperate need for God's grace in my life as I seek to point our daughters to Christ. I am so thankful to have a godly husband who could not be a more wonderful father and example to our littles!
I sure love life with our sweet little girls!
