This girl is eight. Hard to believe. I remember finding out that she was on her way. Sure, it seems like a lifetime ago - I was a baby! But at the same time, the years have flown by! This girl amazes me everyday. She loves to read biographies and recount the stories of the people she learns all about. She dives into history, and especially loves to know all there is to know about the presidents, first ladies, and their families. She dreams of going to Washington D.C. She has a huge heart for her friends and tries to find justice for everyone. She is sensitive, too, and sometimes things that others say are just a little too painful. She loves her sister fiercely. She loves to be able to boss her around and have her way, of course, but at the same time, they are truly, 100% for sure, the best of friends. She also acts like it is her duty to teach Jillian all that she needs to know. She wants to always make us proud. She loves to find things to do that mean she gets extra time with Daddy - so she has fallen in love with the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Stars. She wants to be a "kid doctor" and she is going to build her own hospital that also has a church in it so she can give out Bibles to kids that don't have them and teach them about Jesus. She has her wedding planned out, too. It is going to be in a swimming pool and she is going to wear a swimsuit and instead of walking down the aisle, she is going to jump off the diving board. I think one of her first grade teachers summed her up nicely when she told me "I feel like I could hand Meredith my car keys and ask her to go get my oil changed, and she would get it done better than I would." And that is awesome that others see her for the grown-up, responsible, sweet girl that she is. Of course, this means, at times, she takes things a little too seriously and has a hard time taking risks, but I am so proud of how far she has come this summer! She pushed herself to try out Volleyball, she got over fears in the swimming pool, so that even though she was a good swimmer before, she is a really good, confident swimmer now. She went to Camp Thurman where there are lots of big unknown things and, even when she was nervous of the big activities, she tried them. And she loved them. And she did the same in Colorado. Sometimes it took convincing, but she eventually tried everything that scared her just a bit and learned that those things can be fun. Now, I pray she will continue to take that lesson with her and let herself have more adventures this upcoming year, all while staying the sweet, wonderful, amazing Meredith Ann.
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