Miss Makayla Grace is 4 years old!

Already 4 Years Old!!

 

Makayla is 43 pounds, and that is at the 91st percentile for weight.

and she is 42.5 inches, and that is at the 93rd percentile for height.

Favorite Toys, Games, and  Dolls: Princess tent and flashlight, Daddy's Kindle,Vtech Innotab, watching movies on the Kindle, Starfall online, Puzzles, Hairclips and Bows, Princess Snowwhite and Tinkerbell doll, and looking at books!

Favorite Shows: Team Umizoomi , Dora the Explorer, Little Bill, Tree Fu Tom, 7^th Heaven, House Hunters, dancing shows, and Caillou

Favorite Movies: Up, Finding Nemo, Tinkerbell, Tangled, Christmas Caillou, Strawberry Shortcake, and Monsters University (which I took her to see on her birthday!).
Favorite Colors: PINK and PURPLE...oh and anything "sparkly" or "shiny" :-)

She can write her entire name and we have recently started working on the sounds of each letter in the alphabet. She starts Pre-K in August so I know she will be learning a lot of new things in preparation of learning to read.

Makayla also likes to sing sings. So many times I have caught her singing a lovely tune she made up by herself. Her songs are mostly about God and always sound so sweet. She really wants me to get her a microphone, but I’ve been considering the sheer extra volume of noise it will bring. Lovely noise mostly, but man it’s already rowdy around here! Lol. She loves stickers, hair clips, bows, and flowers; nail polish, and dresses. She’s a girly girl but she also doesn’t mind getting dirty playing outside. She's really been enjoying the Mommy/Daughter days we plan together. It's such a neat time just hang out with her. We like to go to the movies, splashpads, and parks.
 

I took her to the movie theater on her birthday, then out for Mexican food, next to her daycare to eat cupcakes, then home to open presents and eat icecream sandwiches. She really did have a blast and fell asleep in the recliner that evening.

 

 

 

 She had a wonderful birthday party at the park this year. Thankfully the rain cleared and the morning was beautiful. Daddy surprised her with beautiful balloons. She was so excited. Even during the busy summer season, we still had a lot of people come out to help us celebrate her special day! We feel blessed to have such sweet family and friends in our lives. I know she felt like a star.

 

Blessings and Much Joy,

Shawna  

Happy Father’s Day 2013

A Father’s Love

A father is respected because he gives his children leadership…
appreciated because he gives his children care…
valued because he gives his children time…
loved because he gives his children the one thing they treasure most – HIMSELF.

-         Author Unknown

"The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him."

- Proverbs 20:7

A DAD is...

A Son's First Hero

A Daughter's First Love

Happy Father's Day Tim! I'm so glad we're a team with this parenting stuff because it can be hard. Yet, there is no greater gift as great as a child and no greater responsibility than being a parent. God is our Center. I love you very much. Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day Dad! I have a million wonderful childhood memories because of you. Thank you for all the simple things-the spontaneous acts of kindness, an encouraging word just when I needed it, and a strong hug just to say I love you. I love you lots Daddy!!

With Love,
Shawna

June 4th

 Still Are

No more of a little person than baby bird still sleeping in its egg. The shell that never cracked open is the child that stopped growing in his mother’s womb. In an instant her whole life changed-the moment she found out they were expecting you. Your family and friends were expecting you. Yet, just as the seasons change so did their expectations and the realization that you were no more. Something better and more extravagant was also expecting you and now they understand why the Heavens won your soul. You were His. You still are.

Anonymous

I thought of you today and smiled. 

Psalm 139: 1-18

 ¹ O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
 ² You know my sitting down and my rising up;
         You understand my thought afar off.
 ³ You comprehend my path and my lying down,
         And are acquainted with all my ways.
 ⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue,
         But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
 ⁵ You have hedged me behind and before,
         And laid Your hand upon me.
 ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
         It is high, I cannot attain it.

 ⁷ Where can I go from Your Spirit?
         Or where can I flee from Your presence?
 ⁸ If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
         If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
 ⁹ If I take the wings of the morning,
         And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
 ¹⁰ Even there Your hand shall lead me,
         And Your right hand shall hold me.
 ¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall^[a] on me,”
         Even the night shall be light about me;
 ¹² Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
         But the night shines as the day;
         The darkness and the light are both alike to You.

 ¹³ For You formed my inward parts;
         You covered me in my mother’s womb.
 ¹⁴ I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;^[b]
         Marvelous are Your works,
         And that my soul knows very well.
 ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from You,
         When I was made in secret,
         And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
 ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
         And in Your book they all were written,
         The days fashioned for me,
         When as yet there were none of them.

 ¹⁷ How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
         How great is the sum of them!
 ¹⁸ If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
         When I awake, I am still with You.