Myra's 4th birthday

Myra's fourth birthday was such a delight.  She woke up and found her dream giant dollhouse on the table and was ecstatic about it all day long.  We spent hours playing in that little thing along with all her other presents.

I also surprised her with a "spinny dress", so I am sure you can imagine the day was full of spinning as well... 

After naps, we then headed to Disney.  It was perfect and so special.  I hope she will have memories of her birthdays year 1-4 where we celebrated at the most magical place on earth.  

I do a much better job of sharing our lives and my thoughts on instagram and I think I expressed my feelings best there that day.

"Happy Birthday, beautiful girl.  I will never forget holding you in the hospital four years ago feeling things I had never felt before...a mothers love.  You laid there on my bare chest and just stared at me in a peaceful silence with your big eyes full of trust, wonder, and love.  You were the sweetest baby that rarely cried.  I wrapped you around my chest and those first few weeks we spent walking around campus, going to class, nursing in the bathrooms, and then walking across the state together to get my diploma.  WE've been inseparable from day one and I wouldn't have it any other way.  I am the luckiest mom because I get to spend my days cuddling you, reading to you and watching you learn and grow.  You are a girly-girl to the core with a deep love for the color pink and twirly dresses.  Your favorite princess is Belle and you spend hours everyday coloring.  You shower those around you with hugs and kisses, love to dance like Shirley temple, and are sooooo strong-willed- I am convinced you can accomplish ANYTHING you put your heart into.  I loveyou so much and hope that at the end of everyday you go to bed knowing that.

Love, Mom"

Mabey Babies Weekly: 2

Myra:

• I told her in passing a few days ago that she had her dads ears... I didn't think she even heard me until a few days later she randomly said, "I have my dads ears... I got them back and put tape on them so they would stay on..."
• She said, "You're weird" to me for the first time this week.  I am sure that will be a common phrase once she is a teenager. 
• She is loving singing the Moana song and makes certain she is standing on something high up that is her "stage" and makes me sit on the floor while she sings it.  I must say, she may have gotten her daddies ears, but she got my performing face.  If she goes into theatre like me, they'll be telling her to tone it down every five seconds like they did to me.... but for now, I find it adorable.  
• She has major anxieties going into nursery every week at church.... for good reason... Well, today they let her sit in with the sunbeams to see if she does better there even though she technically isn't supposed to go in there until January.  She did fabulously and when I picked her up she had a smile on her face.  A SMILE!!! That was huge for her.  
• Completely and utterly obssesed with drawing.  

Maxwell:

• This boy loves Moana too.  If I sing, "I am...." He then shouts/sings, "OANAAAAAA" (Moana in Max language).  It melts my heart.
• When a prayer ends he yells "MEN" for amen. 
• Every time I sit down to read him a book before bed he giggles with excitement.
• Is almost 18 months and is just as attached to my hip as he was a year ago.  Mommas boy through and through and I LOVE it!!!! Boy of my dreams... and I hope he stays that way through those teen years. haha