My Sweet Girl

I'm sure I have mentioned on here several times how sweet C can actually be. Most of the time she is sass and attitude and drama, but there are these moment throughtout the day where that sweetness shines through. We catch her all the time making cards for her friends and family, helping her brother pick up his room (Please Note: She doesn't pick up her own room) asking Nate and I about our days. She is always thinking of others.

The past couple of weeks, Nate and I have gone into our bedroom to find little notes taped to our headboard courtesy of our Sweet Girl. She surprises us always and we have never been disappointed. She is slowly starting to look more and more like me as she grows, but I believe she has her father's heart. Like her father she believes good lies in everyone's heart. When asked about her friends at school and who she likes, she always replies "Everyone likes everyone, I like everyone." Don't get me wrong she has a handful of girls she truly enjoys playing with but not once have I ever watched or heard her be cruel or intentionally hurtful towards another child (of course I'm not around ALL the time). She gets into it with her closest friend, Henry and her brother. But usually it's because they don't play like 5 year old little girls and she gets frustrated.

Many people don't see this sweet side of Cece because she loves a good show. She loves to be loud and have the attention on her any way she can get it. In the future I hope we are able to guide her towards right vs. wrong kind of attention, if you now what I mean?

She may not always be so openly sweet with us, because like, um, the teenage phase is like... so cool and parents are like...so not cool. Good Lord I hope this is avoidable, but even if her vocabulary includes like as a major player we will still love her, while making fun of her fondness for 'like', as good parents should.

My love for this girl is rooted so deep within my bones; I can't imagine how empty they felt prior to her arrival into our world. Her father, a man with copious amounts of love to give freely has given her the gift an open heart and forgiving soul. If I did anything right in this world, it will always be making Nate the father of these kids. Sounds strange right, because isn't that what you do with your husband, if you decide to have children? But in all honesty that man passed on some pretty amazing gifts to our kids. I will alway be grateful.

One day she will be older, she will be busy with friends and school and activities and probably being a general dramatic pain in the ass and the little bedside notes will stop showing up. No worries, they have all been saved and on those really hard days that all Moms have with their daughters, I will pull them out and remember.