Happy Birthday, Abigail Grace

Happy Birthday to my daughter. The big 5!!! She got out of bed about 7:30 to get ready for school. When we got in the van at 8:10 she said, "Mom, I've already grown some today!" She also expressed her disappointment that her cousin Drake will be 20 before her (by nine months; we found out she was coming the day he was born.)

We look back at her school picture from last year and her picture from this year and we are amazed at the difference. I mean, first of all - THE HAIR!!!!! It's so curly!!! And longer than it looks, because of those curls. But her face is fuller, and it seems like her baby nose is gone. Like last year, she was somewhere between a toddler and a kid, but now, she's a real kid. And such an amazing one. So smart. Do you know she has memorized all of Ephesians 3:14-21. It's incredible to hear her say. She is incredible. And sometimes I hold her and I think, "Wow, what a gift God has given me!"