"TEEWWWWW"

Today I celebrate The Grandbaby.  Okay, so every day I celebrate The Grandbaby but today is her "b'thdAy"!  When asked how old she is on her "b'thdAy", she responds, "Teewwwww".

This girl loves her Mama and her Daddy....

  ...loves to "beeld" blocks and towers and such....

...loves to "swide"....

....loves to run and play "awtshide" especially....

...and absolutely LOVES to play any kind of ball.

She's a flower-picker...

..a book lover....

..and a regular library story time attender.

She REALLY loves her cousins....

..and snuggling with her mama.

The Grandbaby loves animals....

...food, especially if it's "Kickin', "mac-roni", carrots, "bwead", "meelk", and "kookie"....

Even at "teewwwww", she enjoys picking her own clothes for the day and has quite a unique fashion sense....and is now only loving her "papi" (paci) at night.

She loves Minnie, Mickey, Winnie, Peppa, Bubble "Buppies", and so many more...

Things haven't changed much since I learned that she would be arriving in this world.  My dearest wish for her is still to be kind and love Jesus.  Her personality is such a happy one and her smiles come readily so much that I feel that wish will come true as she grows--even through the "teewwwwws" and threes which are said to possibly be terrible.  Time will tell.  Her smiles and infectious joy are what we can learn from her.  Only "teewwwww" of the many things we can learn from her.

So Happy B'thdAy, sweet girl!  We give you much love and we give our Heavenly Father hearts of overflowing gratitude for the blessing of you!

A NEW NAME

This day begins birthday week for The Grandbaby.  Yes, almost two years ago, she became the center of our world. And as most grand babies, she has not strayed from that center, remaining right smack dab in the middle!

Some of you will remember that I had a new name, Gramma.  The Poppa's name came readily to The Grandbaby's lips.  "P" sounds are so easy for kids, or so I choose to think.  Of course when she says "Poppa", she can say it with many different inflections in her voice.  There's the inquiring "Poppa?", the excited "Poppppaaa!", and the quiet worship sound of "Poppa".

When everyone kept trying and trying to get "Gramma" to come out of her mouth, she would finally manage "Namma" and I was good with that.  Then very simply, she began to call me her own version and it has stuck.  Has it stuck permanently?  Time will tell but for now, I'm satisfied with it.  In fact, I have grown to love it as she actually occasionally puts some inflection in my new name and calls me that readily.  My new name, you ask?  Neema.  How about that for unique?  Neema.  I love it!  I don't know anyone else who has that name.

Later for more birthday week remembrances.....

...AND THEN THERE WERE EGGS!

The most important part of Easter is the celebration of the resurrections of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and realizing what HE went through for you and for me, hence my prior posts of last week.  The other celebration is the fun of the Easter egg hunting and all the extras that go along with that fun.  Since I know you regular blog readers enjoy seeing my pictures and documentation, I wanted to follow up with some photos.

I will be enjoying these pictures as I add them to my years and years of those of church egg hunts.  It's amazing to look back and see the growth of children each year.  A couple of weekends ago, Miss Hollywood had a good time hunting eggs.

This weekend, we were invited for a home egg hunt and supper at the home of The Girl, The Son-in-Law, and The Grandbaby.

The Grandbaby seems to never walk but run everywhere.  She has also developed a love for Winnie the Pooh and his friends.  Here is Awl (Owl) and Ore (Eeyore).

The Grandbaby seemed to master the technique of egg hunting but enjoyed some play time before hand.  She had also mastered the technique of climbing the ladder of the slide and sliding down.  Over and over and over and over again.  The Poppa was quite willing to help.  Over and over and over and over again.

The Grandbaby and I formed a "hood" club, allowing Pooh and Tigger to be a part even though they were "hoodless".  The Poppa remained on slide duty.

Of course there were group pictures, too.

Easter Sunday dawned bright and beautiful.  I made a large Easter breakfast to eat after Sunrise Service.  Yes, I had to get up before the dawning of the bright and beautiful.  WAY before but it was worth it.  Before going to the regular Easter service, I took my camera over to The Grandbaby's house to take some dress up pictures.  One always needs dress up pictures, too.

Just look at this sweetness...

...and my favorite picture from this Easter season.  It is a framer for sure.  This picture is worth a thousand words.

So Easter 2018 has passed but many thanks are given to the Heavenly Father for both spiritual and earthly celebrations.

"Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift."  2 Corinthians 9:15

HE IS RISEN!

YES!  Hallelujah!

Jesus rose on the third day just as He said He would.  He always does what He says!

So with words from yet another Easter song we will sing this day:

"Hallelujah, glory, glory.
Celebrate the empty grave.
HOPE is dawning like the morning
This is RESURRECTION DAY!!!!!"

And all God's people said, "AMEN!"