2 Days and 8 Years ago....

Okay, so I'm running a little late on posts lately, no big deal! right? Well as long as no one really cares and that I make sure to post it's okay.

2 Days and 8 Years ago, this little cutie entered our life. Girl #2. She is adorable isn't she? I know you can't see it, but she has a. TON. of hair! She came out with long black hair that stood straight up. Oh she is so much fun. She has made the absolutely wonderful decision to be baptized and become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Stephen and I are so proud of her, so is her older sister. She loves to play soccer, play the piano, play with her friends, cousins, and her siblings. I do believe she would rather dance ballet or any other dance, rather than play soccer, but for now we'll just have to deal. I think she'd be really good at dance, maybe Aunt T can help her a little.
She LOVES anything that has to do with art. She LOVES to write, color, trace, paint, draw, and write notes to her parents. She will use anything and everything she can find, crayons, markers, colored pencils, paint, chalk, and pens or pencils. She will color on anything: walls, sidewalks, papers from school, important papers, scraps, notepads, color pads, the computer art pages, she'll make books and write stories in them. She will make cards for friends and family. She loves to create!

She received a bead kit for Christmas from a cousin and she can't wait to make her next bead creation. She makes bracelets and necklaces, she will try to make other accessories. She loves it.

She has a particular bond with two of her aunts, Aunt Susie Q and Aunt T. She loves all her family members, but there is just something about these two that she just connects with, maybe it's because they are or can be very girlie. Very. But they also are very active and eat healthy so not a bad role model, huh?

She is extremely helpful around the house and at church and school. Her teachers all have wonderful and great things to say about her. She works hard in school and is always trying. Well, we actually won't let her give up on anything, some thing we've been trying to teach all our children. So, yeah, she is always trying and doing. She came to us with an innate sense of modeling. Ever since she was young, she has always posed for pictures, and she does it just right. The hip jutted out, the foot in the right spot, the hand and arm just right. I mean just look at these two pictures and you'll completely understand. Oh, my, isn't she so cute.

Can I tell you she is also dramatic!

I don't know how many of you have seen her when she has a small meltdown, but it is dramatic in every sense of the word. The other day, we visited with my cousin at her home. We believe she has Lotus tree in her backyard. If you've ever seen a Lotus tree, you know how long and skinny their thorns are on the branches. Well, unfortunately, Girl #2 found one with her foot. She was wearing good tennis shoes. I swear it. The thorn went right through her shoe and into the part of her foot between the toes and the ball of her foot. She was crying (understandably) and begging for help. She told us she "needs new shoes IMMEDIATELY!" It was Sunday, we weren't going to buy her new shoes that day, but I took her to get new ones the next. The weird thing was, there wasn't a hole showing where the thorn entered her shoe. I couldn't see a thing! This is just one example of her being dramatic. It happens all the time. Whenever she gets blamed for something or she doesn't want to do something. "Why do I have to do (Girl #1) work all.the.time!?" a direct quote. I swear.

We love her. We are so thankful for her influence and her usual good nature. She is truly a very wonderful girl and I'm so very, very happy that she is mine. She is cute, funny, lovable and loving, helpful, wonderful, sometimes trying my patience, lovely, gray-hair making, usually good natured, happy, sometimes cuddly, sharing, a wonderful little/big sister, teasing, smiling little girl. I love her. She makes me proud.