My Baby Girl

Grace is my baby girl or as she likes to me say my number one best daughter. She was my first born and the singular love of my life as a mom for two years before Ben came along. She is kind and caring to those around her and strong in character as well. She can light up a room with her charm. She has the best real smile ever, not the bared/gritted teeth fake smile that she seems to give in posed pictures. She is happy,fun, and easy to be around. She has her Daddy's sense of humor and makes me laugh all the time with the things she says. She is smart and desperately wants to please people, disappointment just crushes her. She encompasses the definition of a sweet spirit. There is nothing sweeter than to see her face light up when you walk in the door from being gone. She is human sunshine.

She loves the Imagination Movers, Mover Rich is her favorite she tells me because she likes his scribble sticks, but I think it is because he looks most like Daddy. She loves all things Disney Princess. She owns all the princess movies, dresses, crowns, necklaces, makeup, and shoes in the whole state of Florida I think. She doesn't wear anything but dresses and sparkly shoes to school. Shorts and pants are the worse than punishment to Grace, they take some real prodding to get on when in comes to going to school. She is all about the twirl in the skirt. She is my true girlie girl. She loves to play dress up together and fix my hair and put makeup on me, although I don't think that lipgloss should be applied to every area of the face as Grace does. She loves anything sweet, chocolate, cake, brownies, donuts, you name it and she loves it. She has a great imagination and can entertain herself (and Ben) with games and stories she comes up with on her own. She is quite a character and I adore her.

When I think about her future, I know that God has something amazing for her. She is so bright and talented already, I can only imagine what her future holds. I can see people being drawn to her honesty and gentleness. Her ability to stand her ground and stand up for others in the face of something bigger than she is will win the hearts of many. I can see her faith growing and becoming stronger and sturdier as she leans on Him for bigger and bigger things. No matter what she decides to do with her life, I know that I will watch in wonder as God shapes her into the woman she was meant to be and as she makes a difference in this world by simply being my Grace.