WOW!! Can you believe it's another new DECADE? I mean, it just seems that Y2K was just around the last corner. Happy Sweet Beginnings!!
Spending time with family and friends through the Thanksgiving and Christmas season is something that I look forward to each and every year. Thanksgiving helps me to stop and again remember all of the many blessings that my family has been blessed with throughout this year and in years past.
Christmas-a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus and well, when you have little ones the gift giving is a million times more exciting. Berkley said that she heard Santa on the roof this year, bring her top requested "Pink Scooter and Pink Helmet" although she is confused that he about the fact that he such a big belly and he fit through the chimney!! Major was giggling with delight as he loved unwrapping his gifts and anyone's gifts that he could get his little nine month old hands on.
Now, on to a New Year!! A year filled with many blessings and many firsts!! Major will have his first birthday!! Wow, my wheels are already turning....should we have a monkey party or a puppy dog party? But, then again I have three more months to ponder that..... Soon, he'll be talking and even eating Daddy's favorite-pizza!!
The first week of May, Berkley and the "Tiny Tutu's" will have her first ballet recital!! I am already looking forward to seeing two and three year olds perform in their first recital. I'm sure we'll have to get a special new outfit-if not, some new hair bows for the special occassion.
Our family is looking forward to venturing to Sea World for the first time later this spring. While getting out of the bathtub, Berkley was talking about wanting to feed the Dolphins and then she declared, "I want to ride one too Mommy!" We'll see if that makes it into our book of firsts!! I love the innnocence of children-at such a young age-they don't have many fears and she seems willing to try many new things, explore and learn.
As I've written in a prior post, one of Berkley's currenty ambitions is to become a pilot, now along with an Optometrist. She has flown to Michigan a month after she turned one, so she doesn't remember the experience and is already very excited about going on a "BIG plane" as we will be traveling to Michigan later this summer to spend a week, on Lake Leelanau. Excitingly, we will be renting the same yellow cottage (now painted grey) that my Grandparents rented for a month each summer while we were growing up. It will be a first for Berkley to remember being on an airplane, the first time for Major to fly, the first time for our family of four to all fly together and just relax at the beach. Being at the lake for a week, will be a first for Charlie and although I've experience it many times-I have such great excitment for him because he is going to LOVE every minute of being on the serene, beautiful lake and enjoying God's creation.
So, with our year of firsts I'll end this post with a first from sweet little Berkley. Prior to getting into the tub, she wanted to pour some bubbles. What girl doesn't LOVE bubbles in their bubble bath? The more the better!! So, after pouring the "mom suggested" amount, she said......"Mom, I think that the bath tub is thirsty!!" Ha,ha!! Okay, so I know that "right disciplinary" response would be- "no I told you that was all." But, when she comes up with something so innocent and CREATIVE......I had to give in. What a sweet beginning with SO MANY more to follow!
May your New Year be filled with sweetness as ours is each and everyday-some small and some big. Just don't forget to stop and be thankful for the sweet things in life that bring us so much joy! Off to a bath filled with bubbles!!
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