Dec. 11, 2007 - Double Digits
My Baby Turned 10 Today!
I can hardly believe how fast the years have flown! Alexis is our 3rd and youngest child. I call her my bonus baby. She is 7 and 8 years younger than her siblings. The Lord had a plan, and He knew what He was doing. I remember when my sweet girl was born. She came into the world quietly. She did not cry, instead she looked around the room as if to say, what are you doing, I must be missing out on something! She has been trying to catch up on all that she has missed out on ever since.
Alexis asks a lot of deep questions. She wants to understand everything! She challenges me almost every day when we do our Bible reading. When she was young, maybe 4, she asked why God let Adam name ALL of the animals and did not save any for her to name. Too funny!!! On a more serious note, she has asked such questions as, "Where is the Garden of Eden located?" and "Why did God put the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden in the 1st place?" and oh so many harder questions than these!
She is my social butterfly. Somewhere between the ages of 1 and 2, before she could speak well, Alexis decided that she wanted to go out. Where? I do not know. She could not tell me. What she did do is go get my shoes and try to put them on my feet until I went ahead and put them on myself. Then she pushed me to a door in my kitchen that led into the garage where the car was. I asked her if she wanted to go bye bye and she nodded her head yes. When I asked her exactly where she wanted to go, she began to fuss and repeat the words bye bye! I will never know what she had in mind, maybe she just didn't care as long as we got out of the house. She still is like that today. She is not content unless she has gone somewhere and done something. A few weeks ago my husband's car had to be put in the shop so he used mine and we did not go anywhere for a few days. I was perfectly content being "forced" to stay home and enjoyed the down time very much. Alexis on the other hand had a totally different outlook. She said that we were home too long, and that it was one of the longest weeks of her life. (The car was in the shop 2 1/2 days.)
Most of the time this on the go girl gets to go. She stays busy with piano lessons, acro and jazz lessons, book club, co-op, Keeper's, AWANA, Sunday School and lots of field trips. If she weren't homeschooled, I would be concerned that she wasn't getting enough social time!!! LOL!!!
She enjoys playing the piano and practices without being told. We have always called her Tigger because she is extremely active ~ so tumbling twirling, bouncing and rolling fit well with her personality. She loves spending time with her friends and looks forward to seeing them as often as possible. She loves the Lord and works hard at memorizing her Bible verses for AWANA and Sunday School. Alexis has a quick wit. She even laughs at my jokes! She has a strong continence, she's amazingly generous, tenderhearted, and kind to her friends. She is also kind and caring toward her family. When I am sick, she wants to nurse me back to health. She will bring me a platter with water, medicine, crackers, or whatever else she thinks I need to get better. She is always sure to add a homemade get well card to go with it.
She is also loving and kind to her Grandparents. Last week we were scheduled to take my in-laws to the doctor. My mother-in-law called me and asked if we could come over early because my father-in-law was weak and she thought that he may need the wheel chair once we got to the doctor's office. We left promptly, and as soon as Alexis and I got to their house, she hopped out of the van and went inside. I opened the trunk and got the wheel chair to go in it. My plan was take care of that and then go inside and get my father-in-law to come to the van. Well, as I was closing the trunk, I looked up and Alexis was guiding her Granddaddy out of the house and marching him to the van. I can not tell you how relieved I was that she was able to do this. With him having Alzheimer's Disease, it is sometimes very difficult to get him to follow directions. Alexis saw that a job had to be done, and just comfortably took care of it. I love her take charge attitude!. I also love to spend time with her and feel blessed to be her mother.
I am not wishing the time away, but I am looking forward to seeing what the Lord will bring her way in the next 10 years.
Here are a few photos:
Alexis made the cake, I made the frosting and spread it for her. Then
she decorated it all by herself. She was quiet proud of the fact that she
did this mostly independently.
We did not have a party this year, but her Book Club was scheduled
on her birthday. We had it at our house and she chose some fun
"Revolutionary War Era" crafts to do to go along with the book Toliver's
Secret. Here she is happily sharing her cake with her good friends.
Alexis waited patiently until the end of the day to open her
presents from us. She still had enough energy to be really
excited! I love that!!!
