My dear Laela is officially twelve years old today. She is still so little, but also a total grown up. Where has time gone?
In just one year, she has changed in all kinds of ways. Look at that face!!! She is SO much older all of a sudden!! She has her hand in so many activities now. She’s in ballet, volleyball, and piano. She attends two youth groups and she works at the schools concession. There are days we hardly see her, where she eats snacks as she runs between activities, and that ends up being her “meals.” She even RAN the entire route that her school took in honour of Terry Fox. It was 4kms, and she ran it with a friend, from start to finish. In honour of you know who 🥹
I probably couldn’t be a whole lot prouder of her, though I imagine she’ll challenge that again tomorrow, and the next day, and likely the day after that as well. She is incredibly easy to love. Just ask her closest friends, Avery and Jaxon. Lifelong, these friendships 🙌
Laela loves to be one of the adults, helping with the babies, meeting needs she sees, and pitching in humbly and quietly. She aches to lead. But she’s still little, acting scenes out with lego guys and Barbies that Wavy watches in utter amazement. She is a positively delicious middle ground between the two.
A GHOST!
Sweet La, you are SUCH a treasure in our family. Sometimes, at this stage of the game, things get a little extra bumpy, but we come through every single bump better than before! And I’m not being cheeky. I really do mean it. I love getting closer and closer with you 💜 My dear daughter.
I know you’re jazzed to grow up, but please slow it down. I love you right where you are. I’m not sure you could be any more beautiful than you already are, in every way. But again, I imagine you will prove me wrong 💜
Happy birthday, precious Laela. Your birth may have been an absolute nightmare 😅 but I would relive it over and over again if it meant we could know you and love you. Thank you, Lord, for bringing us our sweet Laela Hazel those TWELVE years ago!