Three Little Girls

     I love my three little girls!  They are such a joy and we have so much fun together.  I have been blessed to have caring friends and family who have been willing to watch my girls over the past five years so they haven’t had to be in daycare.  And now Jeremy has a job that allows me to be home more often with my girls. 

     It has been quite the adjustment with me staying home and Jeremy working fulltime.  Cora has also started Kindergarten this year bringing even more change.  Cora has loved school!  She has always loved to learn and is already reading with the first graders.  I don’t take much credit for teaching her.  She learned much of what she knows on the computer and from books.  She is bright, enthusiastic, and always ready to learn new things.  Today she wanted to stay home for the first time but was a trooper and got ready to go.  Brooke cried as we left.  She doesn’t like to see her best friend leave.

     Brooke has had to learn to play with a little sister who doesn’t tell her what to do all the time.  She has jumped right into the role of big sister and play coordinator.  When friends come over she now dictates much of the play.  She has such a silly personality and tends to take on the part of the prince or bad guy.  She has the face to go with it too.  Her bad guy faces are phenomenal though she can’t keep them for long when I start laughing at her.  She is a silly goose!  It has been amazing to watch her play with Ally and see how well they get along.

     Ally, what is there to say about that one?  She is my toughest baby yet.  Just this week she has started hitting and pushing Brooke when she doesn’t get her way.  I never had to deal with that with her two older sisters.  She is also determined to wear big kid panties though not so determined to do her business in the potty.  I have had to start putting her in onesies in order to keep her clothed throughout the day.  Where Brooke has just recently learned to get her shirts off, Ally is a pro.  Given the chance, she will be naked before I even know what’s going on.  My little angel keeps me on my toes more than the other two ever did, combined. 

     It has always been hard for me to write about my girls.  I guess I don’t feel I can do them justice.  And yet, after writing these few things about them I feel happy, and the smiles they bring to my face all day are brought back now while they sleep.  They truly are priceless children of God.