{"id":5479,"date":"2013-01-11T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2013-01-12T03:58:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T03:58:03","slug":"she-said-she-wouldnt-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/she-said-she-wouldnt-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"She Said She Wouldn’t Grow Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My maniacs are all precious and I love them all so much.\u00a0 As a mother, each one holds a special place in my heart.<\/p>\n

I love Preston, my firstborn.\u00a0 He had my heart first.\u00a0 Not only is he my firstborn, but he is my only baby boy.<\/p>\n

I love Lilly Katherine, my firstborn daughter, for her tender heart and her love of doing things for others.\u00a0 I love her because I understand her, and I know how and why she does what she does.\u00a0 I get her.<\/p>\n

I love Georgia because she will always be my baby!\u00a0 I will savor her every move and try to hold onto everything knowing that she is my last.<\/p>\n

And then there is AnnaLeigh!<\/p>\n

My Pinky.\u00a0 My middle baby girl.\u00a0 My #3 baby.<\/p>\n

Oh, how I love this little firecracker!\u00a0 She makes me smile.\u00a0 She has my heart!\u00a0 She is easy to love because she is so lovable!\u00a0 She is aggressive and feisty and funny and easily excitable.\u00a0 She is a go-getter, our little “Supervisor” –\u00a0 always keeping everyone straight.\u00a0 She is dramatic and loud.\u00a0 She gets out of anything with her father because she knows how to make him laugh!\u00a0 She is a serious stinker, and I love her!<\/p>\n

This world is better because AnnaLeigh Rose is alive.\u00a0 Really!<\/p>\n

And my baby girl, the one that promised me she would never turn THREE, just turned FOUR!\u00a0 I’m not sure how it happened, but my sweet little ladybug is four!\u00a0 It’s like she woke up looking older on her birthday morning!<\/p>\n

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We gave her 2 gifts.\u00a0 A sleeping bag, which she was so excited about….<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Then we had to stop opening, because these two yahoos could not say anything nice to anyone!\u00a0 I made them do jumping jacks until they could smile, then they had to each hug AnnaLeigh and say “Happy Birthday!\u00a0 I will have a good attitude.”<\/p>\n

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Then AnnaLeigh opened her doctor’s kit.\u00a0 She and Lilly Katherine wanted a Doc McStuffins Doctor’s Kit for Christmas.\u00a0 When I looked at them, I realized they were way overpriced and did not do much at all.\u00a0 So I made her a kit out of real doctor “stuff.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>She loved it!\u00a0 She immediately assumed the role of Dr. AnnaLeigh, calling me back to the room to be doctored.<\/p>\n

“Mama.\u00a0 Patient Mama.\u00a0 I’m ready for you to be doctored.”<\/p>\n

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Then she and Lilly Katherine doctored all day long!<\/p>\n

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It was an animal infirmary.<\/p>\n

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She wanted a ladybug cake, and I am holding out on her real cake until her birthday party…which is scheduled…uh…sometime in the spring! :)\u00a0 She wants a party in the park, and i told her we can’t do that in January.\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 Out of another January party!<\/p>\n

So on her birthday, I just made her a little cookie cake<\/a> and tried to make a ladybug on it.\u00a0 Again, pitiful, but she loved it.<\/p>\n

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Happy Birthday Pinky!<\/p>\n

I love you so stinkin much!<\/p>\n

Lord, thank you for this little life.\u00a0 Thank you for her spunk and her fire.\u00a0 Thank you for her expressions and her imagination.\u00a0 Lord, thank you for blessing our family and all who know this tiny woman.\u00a0 It is my prayer for her that she will know you and love you!\u00a0 I pray that she will listen to you and desire to follow you, and we both know listening and following are not her strengths. :)\u00a0 Lord, thank you that she is such a leader.\u00a0 May she always lead people TO you.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lord, this baby was the greatest surprise you could have ever given me!\u00a0 She lights up my life, and I thank you so much that you chose me to be her mother.\u00a0 Please help me to love the way she needs to be loved, teach her the way she best learns, and train her in your ways.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you for AnnaLeigh Rose!\u00a0 Please guide her with your word, and my she make every decision with godly wisdom and discernment.\u00a0\u00a0 Lord, please bless this baby girl with sweet friends that love you.\u00a0 Please put wise people in her life.\u00a0 I pray that AnnaLeigh will be a good friend, kind and loving, compassionate and understanding.\u00a0 And please bless her with the same.\u00a0 I pray that you are already preparing a man to love her and be her groom; a man that loves you most, and will love this little firecracker second.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lord, thank you so much for every day I have had with this little joy.\u00a0 Please bless her with a long, happy, full life.\u00a0 Bless her with good spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical health.\u00a0 Thank you for AnnaLeigh!\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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-kate<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My maniacs are all precious and I love them all so much.\u00a0 As a mother, each one holds a special place in my heart. I love Preston, my firstborn.\u00a0 He had my heart first.\u00a0 Not only is he my firstborn, but he is my only baby boy. I love Lilly Katherine, my firstborn daughter, for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}