Laney's Baptism

Fun in the leaves

While jumping in the leaves this afternoon, Mya said, " I wonder why Daddy piled all these leaves here?"
Well, for you to jump in, of course.

Good thing you have that leaf blower, Daddy.

Alena wanted pigtails to match her baby, Lucy. She added the clips on her own.

Snoozin'

and because it's much harder to get a picture of the boy:

Trying to catch a smile

Watch out!

It's super Eden and super Alena

sisters...

out to save the world.

Daddy and his girls

Another Mya's Birthday Post

I've had the worst time with Flickr not letting me edit pictures, but here are a few more pictures from Mya's actual birthday.

(plate from here)

It was a real treat to have Aunt Emma here on Mya's birthday. Here are Emma and the kiddos right before we left our house to take Emma to the airport.

Finally, Mya's answers to the birthday questions.

How old are you today? 6

What is your favorite color? yellow

What is your favorite food? sweet potatoes

What is your favorite book? my Bible

What do you want to be when you grow up? a Mommy

Where is your favorite place to eat out? McDonalds

What is your favorite thing to do with Mommy? hold Laney

What is your favorite thing to do with Daddy? play games

What is the best thing about having Gabriel for a brother? I get to play with him

What is the best thing about having Alena for a sister? we can play princesses

What is the best thing about having Eden for a sister? she's funny

What is the best thing about having Laney for a sister? that she's so sweet

What is your favorite thing to do with your friends? play

What can't you wait to do when you get bigger? be able to use a permanent marker

Where is your favorite place to visit? the beach

What do you love about going to Mathu and Pathu's? we get to eat supper or lunch

What do you love about going to Grandmama and Grandaddy's? we get to spend the night

What is your favorite thing to play? ballet

What thing do you most dislike doing? playing Star Wars

What is your favorite part of the day? the middle of the day like noon

What would you do if you could stay up all night? play

Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world? South Carolina

What makes you happy? Daddy and Mommy

What makes you sad? if Daddy doesn't come home from work

What do you wish you could do? see Ellen more

What made this the best birthday ever? I got Chloe (a ballerina doll)

Look who's 6

Pictures from our birthday celebration in VA this past week.

(yes, Laney is in there)

...She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.

Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worthy all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends , but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!

Elizabeth Prentiss Stepping Heavenward

So much to learn as I re-read this book yet again.