Dear Livi...12 months

Dear Livi,

05-20-15

I cannot believe I am a month late writing your "one year" letter...but I am just having too much fun being your mommy to sit down and write :)  I always struggle to find the words to adequately express just how much I love you and Will...and I fear that I fail miserably, because there are not enough words in the dictionary to describe just how much I adore you both!  You are the happiest little girl and you giggle all the time!  

You started walking around 10 months and you started saying "da-da" and "ma-ma" around 11 months.  You LOVE your big brother and he continues to be the one that can make you giggle just by looking at you.  You love to eat and have yet to meet a food you didn't like:)  I think your favorite foods, as of late, are strawberries, cheese puffs, and bananas.  You are still sleeping like a little angel and you've gotten quite attached to your pink bunny.  Your favorite activity is playing peek-a-boo with anything you can find to cover your face...curtains, your dress, a towel, or clothes from the laundry basket-anything! You also love your baby dolls and will walk all around the house putting them in your strollers. I cannot leave you alone for 10 seconds because you are a climber!  Just this last week, you wanted something off the counter and pulled the oven drawer open trying to stand on it to get up to the counter.  You're almost too smart for your own good! You love taking a bath, but you don't like the baby pool yet(can't figure that one out!).  You are so happy in your swing on the back porch and will sit and watch Will play for an hour. You can be quite the "drama queen" when you don't get your way and have already mastered throwing yourself on the floor, back arched, and screaming.  I tell people all the time that you are just like the little girl in the poem, "There was a little girl".  

There was a little girl,

     Who had a little curl,

Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good, 

     She was very good indeed,

But when she was bad she was horrid.

Your daddy and I love you to pieces and we both thank God every day for choosing us to be your mommy and daddy!  I pray continually that you will grow up to love the Lord and that you will stand firm in your walk with Him.  I always like to envision you reading these letters as a mother yourself one day and I pray that you will smile knowing that you are praying the same for your little ones.  

I love you to the moon and back "Livi Lou" and I thank you for all that you're teaching me as a mother.  The Lord uses you and Will consistently to draw me closer to Him and that just makes y'all all the more special! :)  

I love you sweet girl,

Mommy