DADDY: When we moved to Fountain Valley, we had you sort through your belongings to get rid of a bunch of stuff you were clinging to. You little pack rat, you. We've been learning a lot in our lives about being sensitive to letting God show us what we treasure in our hearts and that earthly stuff is just stuff. It's not wrong in and of itself, but if we're clinging to it so badly, sometimes we've just got to learn to let it go so our hearts can learn how not to cling to anything but Jesus.

So we did this with your coloring papers. You love coloring. You love art. And you never want to throw ANY of it away. You must have had hundreds of papers filed in your organizer bin. So many. Too many. We had you sort them into 3 stacks: throw away, take a picture with, or scan to computer. Then we threw them all away.

Here are the scans:

A few pictures from Chuck E. Cheese's

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Christmas 2008

 

 

Your hand at 3 years old.

A note you wrote to Grandma Lavinia.

A record of when you knew how to write all your letters...kind of .

A church coloring paper.

I loved how you colored in certain specific shapes and that's it.

You love learning how to write your letters.

You amaze us at how well you color in the lines and make your colors match!

This was a coloring page from church.

A note from Grandma Melba and Papa Jack (Papa Jack died this year and went to be with Jesus)

A note from Grandma Lavinia

 

Talking to God

DADDY: You are 3 1/2 years old, birthday coming in July.

When I woke up this morning, Mommy asked me to go check on you because you had been sleeping in our bed but were no longer with us. I assumed you had gone back to your bed. Or perhaps you were playing out in the living room, although I hadn't heard you out there at all.

I checked the living room first because I had some photos to edit on the computer. There you were, sitting on your knees and elbows on the beanbag by the front windows. The blinds were open and you were staring outside toward the front porch. You turned to me and smiled, brushed your hair back behind your ear.

I had a choice. (1) I go to computer to edit photos or (2) I go sit by my daughter. I'm glad I chose #2 because otherwise I might never have heard you tell me, "I'm just looking out the window talking to God." I love that you think about God and that he is drawing your little heart toward him. He loves you and your heart.

Also, you told me, you were watching the flies that were buzzing over the plants.

Love you.

Disney Themes

G-Momo:

For the last few months, Sarah, Beauty and the Beast has been your movie of choice, which is not a problem for me because it's my favorite Disney movie. However, I've found myself singing Beauty and the Beast tunes at the office, so when you were over last night and went to the movie shelf, I tried to get you to try a new movie. 

The conversation went sort of like this: 

"How about Aladdin?" 
"What is that about?" 
"A princess who lives in a castle but she wants out to see the world so she runs away and meets a boy who is poor and steals to get his food." 
"That's just Rapunzel in Tangled." 
"How so?" 
"Rapunzel wants to get out of the tower and she meets a thief. It's the same thing, but I'll watch Aladdin once. Are there scary parts?" 
"I only remember the funny parts."  

Three years old and you already compare and contrast movies. You are such a clever girl!