For the last four years I’ve worn the exact same shirt, on this exact same day.  Its become a tradition I suppose, and if this shirt will hold up and I can fit in it, I’ll probably wear this same shirt on this same day for the rest of my life.  I wore it for the first time, the day my second daughter was born. When I put it on this morning it was like I stepped back in time, and could remember every detail about that day.  Going in early that morning for Kristia to be prepped for her C-section.  Pacing anxiously, waiting for them to take her back.  Then standing with Kristia as the doctor delivered that beautiful baby girl.  I remember walking her out and showing her to her big sister and her grandparents all standing around with wide eyed wonder.  What an exciting day that was.

Now here I am, four years later, celebrating Madilynn Eden Greer’s fourth birthday.  I’m still wearing my shirt, but man has she changed from that first day.  Mady is four going on forty.  She’s so animated, so engaging.  She loves to laugh and loves to make other people laugh.  She loves to sing to the top of her lungs even if she doesn’t have a clue what the lyrics are, she’s not afraid to make them up.  She knows what she likes, and knows what she doesn’t.  Even as a baby, she didn’t like my singing, and she would cry every time I would sing to her.  She’s learn to adapt to my singing, but has her songs she likes and those she doesn’t.  She loves to dance, twirl, jump, and flip, and the older she gets the more she does those things all over my heart.

So today, I’m wearing my shirt, to celebrate, but more so to remember how much brighter my life became when this little ballerina danced right into my world.

Happy Birthday Mady-mae!!

Warning: Sappy Video Posted below, for the Grandparents