Happy Birthday!

Today is the very first birthday of two wonderful little ladies, Zoe and Kaylee.

A year ago this morning our pastor and his wife hurried over in the middle of the night (and they don't live exactly next door either - more like an hour away!) to watch Zach and Esther for us while we scrambled for the hospital. We made it with about an hour to spare; possibly the quickest and "easiest" delivery of Monica's distinguished career.

Zach told us the other day how he woke up that morning and saw Nanny (Sister Dale) talking to Esther, and immediately thought, "Momma and Daddy are at the hospital! Hurray! I don't have to go to school!"

God bless Monica's Mom, who stayed with us for a month, and her Dad, who graciously lent his wife to us.



Memories...

So far Zach holds the (immediate) family record for earliest walker; he was walking around at 10 months, and at 12 months got his very first lollipop. Zoe and Kaylee are being a little lazy about walking, which is fine by us. They get into enough trouble as it is. They play with each other more often now, but most especially like to duke it out over a toy. Kaylee is very attentive when Zoe is eating something Kaylee wants.

Kaylee is the big-time talker. She tries to say words she has no hope of pronouncing. Her latest "words" are "sus" for Jesus, and "ssshh" for fish. She likes to point "up", and say it at the same time.

Zoe is apt to point up with both hands when she sees Kaylee pointing up. She's not as talkative as Kaylee, but everyone now and then she'll pop out a perfectly enunciated word just out of the blue. And she likes to point. Since she sucks her index and middle fingers together, she also points with both fingers before popping them back into her mouth. Like she's gonna shoot somebody with those fingers. Put the briefcase down over there. And all the money had better be there, see?

...and more memories.

Time flies, don't it?