My baby girl can SMILE!! I literally had to fight back tears. Just after getting back from picking up the kids at school I was talking to Melody and there it was, a little smirk. It was all I could do to keep myself together and not break down. Reality has finally sunk in and I can't always have a baby. But seriously, this smile will brighten anyone's day!

We had just got back into the van and I had given each of the boys a pack of fruit snacks and told them to get buckled. The normal routine usually continues with us sitting in the parking lot with the van in park and me politely asking Carder to please get buckled so we can leave. Then the politeness subsides after the seventh or so time I remind him and frustration sets in. He always seems to buckle himself but someone in the van tends to be in tears by the end. So, what made this day different was that I had pulled away from the park not realizing Carder had dropped his fruit snacks on the floor and had unbuckled to get them. Immediately Cayden starting yelling, "CARDER! What are you doing? You're not buckled!" Carder responds with a casual, "So, I dropped my fruit snacks." Cayden then proceeds to define their personality differences with one sentence, "Carder, your life is more important than those fruit snacks!"

This is the best description of my lovely daughter. She is honestly a monkey! Not only does she do pull-ups on jungle gyms but she also finds every other functioning source in the house. These would include our landing railing, the kitchen drawers, dresser drawers, my arms, the dining room table, the back of the couch...I think you get the point! Oh, but how she makes us smile :)