We snapped this picture last Sunday...notice the earings? She was so excited to finally swap out her earings for some "fun" ones.
This girl is awesome. Really. I am so lucky to have her and that she is my first. She makes life so easy! It has been fun to watch her grow up a little more and mature this last year. I'm so proud to be her mom. Just in the last week I have had two different people come to me and tell me how smart and well behaved she is. She had to go to an older primary class a few weeks ago and the teacher of that class told me how impressed she was at lou's behavior and how well she payed attention and how much she knew! Greg says he's always proud of her in primary (She's in the Senior Primary in our ward so I don't get to see her anymore, but Greg visits the primary often as the counselor over primary). He said that even when others are being irreverent, she is always trying her best to do what's right. She and I occasionally have our moments, but she is quick to forgive and so eager to help out wherever she can around the house. For as many times as I ask her to help with Dallin, or with the dishes, or to go get something from the storage room or any other request I make, you would think she would roll her eyes and rebel. But she is always quick to help and is so easy going. I just love her! I also love watching how she handles things at school. So many girls this age get caught up in the "drama" and fads of being a girl. She never begs for the latest styles. She never demands to do things just because her friends are doing them. She also doesn't let the pettiness of others affect her. There are times when she just plays alone at recess because she doesn't want to have to choose sides. I love her for that...mostly because I wasn't that girl growing up. I grew up in a small school with a pretty large (for the classroom size) group of girls. WE WERE HORRIBLE! It seemed like every day there was some fight going on and the group was always split into two or three because of petty things. (Luckily we all outgrew it and stuck together when moving up to the bigger school in a different town...I still love all of those girls!) Anyway, back to lou...I sometimes worry that she doesn't get involved with her friends enough, but her past teachers have always told me that she is the peacemaker. She doesn't get involved and she doesn't let things bother her. I love that quality in her and I appreciate that I can learn something from my eight year old!
So...that's just what I was thinking when uploading this picture and thought I would share. I hope to always have a good relationship with this girl of mine. Luckily we have very different personalities so I think the odds are in my favor! ;)
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