9 Years Ago.....

I am sitting down first thing to write this blog after a late night with friends by the fire ( NOT to hot to have one last night- YES!!!) and while I type my big girl Kayla is eating down her requested bday breakfast - pancakes with LOTS of syrup and chocolate milk- and eating it in bed ( also requested!!) She spent the night with her BFF so this morning I came over, carried her over to our house and into her bed so she could have a breakfast-in-bed deal ( sorry Jules that I woke up your fam for this EVENT!! LOL) It's kinda became a tradition to have breakfast in bed, Daddy started it with me a long time ago and now that the girls are a little older they want in on the princess treatment too!! LOL So like I said I wanted to blog this first thing because I can't believe my little girl is 9! 9 years ago today ( around 4) I was sitting in a hospital about to have a baby and little did she know change my life forever. When I picked her up this morning and carried her home it brought back such memories of me holding this little 7 pounder, crying thinking- what am I going to do? I was thrilled to meet her, grateful to have had a quick delivery, scared to hold her to tight, and petrified to take her home with me!...... Kayla was a smart sweet baby from the start- she slept on my chest the first SEVERAL weeks because I wanted to make sure she was breathing since she never cried to be fed or changed, she loved baths, and just laying on the floor in my first apartment..... I also remember the Dr.'s telling me it was time to go home from hospital and me thinking OH MY GOSH! THEY ARE JUST GOING TO GIVE ME THIS BABY? LOL! I thought for sure if I dressed her wrong, didn't change her enough, or if she wasn't gaining weight at her Dr.'s visits they might take her away, but I DID IT and we both survived ;) !!! It seems like second nature now with four ( and believe me poor Cash was in his own crib ASAP- poor lil guy!) the diapers, getting them dressed, bathed, fed........ all that comes in being a parent- it truly is the hardest thing I have ever done ( YES even harder than my tri!), but I truly feel this is what God has called for me to be and I am so blessed to have been given Kayla- I pray that all her dreams come true, that she will live for the Lord, and for her family to be ( even though as of right now- no kids for her, maybe a husband she says or she may live with her best friend in a castle!LOL) she is still the smart, sweet, loving baby girl I had 9 years ago but way taller and with a little more drama!! I love you K and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!