tuesdays at jew-nastics

 

georgia started gymnastics jew-nastics at the beginning of the summer.  it's only on tuesdays and just about every other day she asks if it's jew-nastics day.  i kinda wish it was because she is irresistable in her leotard.  they do half of their class in the preschool gym and the other half in the big gym where the big girls are.  we get there super early because she loves watching those big girls.  in that picture above she's trying to do some move she saw and her exact words were..."watch dis mommy.  dis is for big girls.".

 
 
 
 
 

she's not up yet, but she'll be so happy to know it's tuesday, jew-nastics day when she wakes up...

 

funny girl

 
this was the exact conversation that she had with her daddy the other day...

"little people stand on tippie toes but big people stand on big toes and you don't have little feet just me and mommy have little feet and your skin isn't pink just a litte pink but my skin is a little bit brown and a little bit pink and you don't have any hair."

that was all one sentence, one breath.  god love her. 

and if you're wondering about the ear muffs above, those are flight line ear muffs from harold's air force days.  you can't hear anything with those things on.  sometimes around 5 p.m. when little people who haven't napped starting getting fussy, i may or may not wear those around the house and sing kumbaya loudly.  she knows how they work now and i'm afraid she'll catch on and start using them on me.  in that picture above she's saying..."what...what...i can't hear you".  smart girl huh...

love this...

 

there is so much story in each of these pictures.  but really the story is the very same.  it's us two face to face...eye to eye...saying the same thing to the other..."wow we made it another year.  and i am so very glad to be celebrating with you".  

 

and now...

 

and now.  wow.  now just keeps getting better and better.  for the past two years i've thought 'okay, this is my favorite age'.  but now...this stage we're in now...it definitely is.  she is my constant companion and seriously i'm so smitten with her.  we talk about barney and the holy spirit. together, we pray for her stuffed animals and her future husband.  and even the hardest of days bring so much blessing to my life. 

this is what she said the other day... "mommy, you're not perfect.  but you will be perfect when you get to heaven.  but not right now.  you're not perfect right now.  but you are perfect for me". 

before the foundation of the world, we were perfect for each other.  God knew that she would be mine and i would be hers.  so even in the hardest of days, i try to remember that sweet perfection and enjoy every hard, trying, patience testing bit of this third year.

and one year ago...

 

and here we are just last year. bigger. smarter. sweeter. a little more sassy and a little more secure. both of us. that year 2 was a good year. a lot less borrowing trouble from tomorrow. a lot more enjoying the days as they come