Esther is One!

Our Precious second daughter is one year old!

How is it even possible that it's been a year since Esther was born into our arms! Having another girl in our home is such a precious gift.

Our sweet Esther is growing so quickly! She is full of personality and adds such fun to our home. She loves to smile and laugh, to be with her brothers and sisters, and to eat. Boy can this girl eat! And she eats everything. What a blessing that is! 

She already loves to learn. Esther watches then does. She repeats everything that she hears and is already talking a LOT. She's a super fast crawler but is working on walking. Right now she enjoys looking at books and turning pages. Already she's beginning to ask what things are. She wants to know.

Esther loves to be around people, especially family. She and Lillian already have a special sister bond and it is so sweet to watch Esther follow Lillian and want to be with her. She loves her brothers too, but already she recognizes that Lillian and her are different and it's such a blessing to see this grow even with ten years age difference between them. In turn, Lillian loves to take care of Essie and make sure she has what she needs. Lillian takes Esther with her and teaches her as they go. 

She also loves to snuggle and it so sweet to have Esther come up and give you a hug. She also loves kisses and fishy lips. It's so cute to watch her make fishy lips to ask for a kiss. Esther also blows kisses when she's leaving a room or Daddy is leaving and she's in her chair. It's precious having such a sweet little girl. 

We have been so blessed by this arrow in our quiver. Esther has been such a blessing to our home. 

Father, thank You for sweet Esther and giving us another girl to fill our family. Thank You for her life. We pray that You will continue to grow her and that You will save her by Your amazing grace. Give us grace to teach her to love You and her neighbor. Make her a light for Your glory. In Jesus's Name, we ask these things. Amen!