E is 7 today. From the time I was 13 weeks pregnant, she hasn't stopped moving. Her personality hasn't swayed since birth. Labor with E was 46 hours...it was time to be born, but she just didn't want to leave her Mama. LOL
She was born with a gorgeous head of dark hair, and had dark eyes. She's looked just like me all her life, but her personality is all her own. She is slow to warm up to new adults, but once she approves of someone, she gives her heart to them fully. This child is SMART! If it seems impossible, E will work and work to figure a solution out. She gets things on the first try, and is ready to move on to more new things.
E is imaginative. She's talked to herself her entire life, spinning stories, conversations, and making up songs. We have stood outside many a public bathroom, laughing because we can hear her clear outside the door talking, and taking on both imaginary parties conversations. She loves music, and will compose her own songs on the piano. When she is sad or thoughtful, she makes up the most beautiful, sad-sounding songs. When she is happy and excited, I have to tell her to quit banging on my piano keys. When she isn't singing, or playing the piano, she is "drumming" on everything in the house...or whistling...or playing the recorder. She loves to dance, spin in circles, and exercise with Mommy. (Shhh...I don't do that! LOL)
School with E is interesting, to say the least. She learns quickly, and on first try, so thankfully, it doesn't take long. Thankfully, because she is constantly making up stories about the illustrations in her book instead of writing answwers. She rarely has her pencil on the paper; instead it is being poked through her socks, her shirt, my comforter, and occasionally her own skin.
E is the only child I've met who can be sitting perfectly still and fall off a bed or out of a chair. She loses EVERYTHING. We have a place for things like coats, shoes, pencils, etc....but E's things are mysteriously never where they belong. How do you lose a coat??? LOL
She feels things very deeply. She cries tears of joy and amazement, and she cries when she feels life is unfair. She is the child who, if Mommy or someone else is upset, will not say a word, just quietly make a picture to cheer me up, or bring me her own blanket, even if she is cold. E's nickname is "Cuddlebug"....she's my hugger, my lap-sitter, the one who for the first 3 years of life couldn't fall asleep without clutching Mommy's ear. When she's sick, she will still reach up and hang on to my ear for comfort.
When we say nightly prayers, E is the one who remembers to pray for people or situations C and I forget to mention. E is the one who, not one night of her life, has ever forgotten to ask God to tell her litany of pets and people who have died, that she loves and missed them. (Bandit, Sonny, Goldie, Kristi, and Thumper...every night!)
E is the most active of my children, the smartest in figuring out new things and grasping new concepts. E is the most, by far, imaginative, and the most sensitive, empathetic little girl. She is caring, loving, and considerate without a single reminder.
E was quite a surprise to me when I found out I was pregnant, and she has been a challenge to mother, and yet she is the biggest blessing, the example we all should follow. I ADORE my E, and am so thankful God blessed me with her. I just can't think of one thing about my little E that I don't love and appreciate. HAPPY BIRTHDAY my dear, little one.
