15 March 2009

Happy Birthday, Frap!






Happy Birthday


                to my second born


 


Happy Birthday


                to the infant who put herself on a 3-hour feeding/sleeping schedule


 


Happy Birthday


                 to the nine-month-old who got chicken pox


 


Happy Birthday


                to the poor little toddler with food-allergy-induced-eczema who couldn’t sleep for more than twenty minutes at a time


 


Happy Birthday


                to the 17-month-old who used words like “actually” and who climbed to the top of the great big slide at the beach park all by herself


 


Happy Birthday


                to the two-year-old who was obsessed with pockets and who would put herself in time out if she wanted to throw a fit


 


Happy Birthday


                to the four-year-old reader and math wiz who yelled out the answers to her big sisters' problems


 


Happy Birthday


                to the little girl who couldn’t stop after making herself cry for a game of pretend with her sisters


 


Happy Birthday


                to the child who just could not come home from a 15-minute visit to McDonald’s or the park or the library without a phone number or an e-mail address of a new best friend


 


Happy Birthday


                to the adolescent I watched become a leader among her peers


 


Happy Birthday


                to the hard-working teenager who paid her own way on several mission trips and to the generous teen who paid the way of others


 


Happy Birthday


                to a young woman with hopes and goals and plans to travel to Greece, to do more mission work, to love the Lord with all her heart, mind, soul, and strength, to live her life exuberantly


 


Happy Birthday, Abi


May all your dreams come true!

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