Our ‘Tootsie’ is 3 today!!
Life with this little girl is better than I could have ever imagined. She is full of curiosity, energy, imagination and independence. I love watching her from the distance as she sings into her fist microphone twirling around the edge of the sandbox with a tune in her head and scuffed cowgirl boots on her feet. There are days when I cannot get her out of her tutu yet other days she refuses to wear it. She continues to teach me to let go of a lot of little things that really do not matter but to grasp those fleeting moments of her childhood that are making the memories of the little lady she is becoming. Many times since moving to the farm, I’ve paused to watch her knowing God has placed her in exactly the place she needs to learn to fly. And, I thank him deeply for that.
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This last image was an outtake during her little brother’s shoot.
I looked over and heard her quote Disney’s Frozen, “Prince Hans, I leave you in charge! I’m coming, Elsa!”
Music: Wild Child by Kenny Chesney
(P.s. That is not my voice-over at the end of the song, but it is spot on to what I would tell my Shelb.)