Mom's Letters: happy birthday to our two-year-old birthday girl!

Monday, November 5, 2012

happy birthday to our two-year-old birthday girl!

Birthday girl all ready for her Friday night paddle-boat date with dad and mom (and Blake, Ali, Paige and Bryndalynn). Isn't she getting big?!

Farm yard party! Claire LOVES farm animals!

Ali brought two perfect gifts - a 101 dalmation lunchbox (pack), and a pop-it farm animal book. Oh! Claire was feeling it and was not interested in sharing her new prizes with anyone else.

Tonight is the final celebration - Family Night all about Claire! She gets to be family night leader and pick all the songs she wants (which will be many). We will also let her open two more presents and blow the candles out as many times as she wants. Thrills for our two-year-old. I love it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET CLAIRE!!!

1 comment:

DeeDee said...: How sweet. I feel like it was just yesterday that you called me from your hospital bed after having Claire!; November 5, 2012 at 7:55 PM

Mom's Favorite Quotes

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Monday, November 5, 2012

happy birthday to our two-year-old birthday girl!

1 comment: