Happy Birthday Payton!
Today Payton is four years old. Last night after a birthday party Grandpa and Grandma took Caedmon and Payton camping. So the birthday girl got to wake up in their camper and have dutch oven baked cinnamon rolls for her breakfast. I'll have to hug my birthday girl later today.
I can't believe that she is four already! It's all going too fast. The hours sometimes drag on and on, but I really can't believe how fast the years have gone. Payton becomes more and more like a little young woman everyday! She is our crazy one. She's the constantly singing, talking, death defying, drama queen who has the ability to send mom straight from near heart attack, to severally irritated, rolling on the floor with laughter, to madly in love all within a few moments. Everyone says she's my mini me in looks. That's pretty true but we are pretty different in personality. A lot of the time I don't understand her, but a lot of the time she's just so wonderfully refreshing. She's so fun and looks at life with such adventurous eyes!
God is really starting to capture her little heart. I think she is searching to understand how this Jesus in our hearts things works. In the car the other day she was saying how she asked Jesus into her heart. I then asked her about sin and that she was a sinner and how she needed to confess that to God and let Him be the boss of her life. Her reply, "Yeah, I know. But I'm the boss of my Barbies."
A few days ago I was talking to her about adoption. We talked about what orphans are and what it means to adopt orphans into a family. She seems to understand pretty well for her age but I wasn't sure how it was soaking in. Then that night after Jason had gotten home from work and was relaxing in the basement, she yells down to him with a really loud matter of fact voice, "Papa, if there are kids with no moms and dads, we're supposed to adopt them. OKAY!"
These pictures are from this last week when she begged and begged me to let her try on my wedding dress. So cute! I love this girl so much!
(she thought the sewed in "boobie cups" were just so silly!)
2 comments:
You need to frame some of these pictures....they are so sweet! Can't imagine life without that girl!! She is so much fun!
You should start having her put your dress on each birthday and take pictures! Mary Trampel has done that with her daughter since her first birthday and the pictures are so fun!
Hi - Would it be OK if I share one of the pictures here on this post of Payton in the wedding dress on my blog at http://lifetoheryears.tumblr.com with a link back to your blog?
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