A Reason to Smile

Thank God for days like today!  

Even in the midst of a terrible day, a smile can form so easily because of our little girls!!  

We had company this morning and to say the girls were excited about that would be quite the understatement!  Taelyn wasn't exactly sure what to think at first when our visitors came!!  She checked them out and showed them her more serious side until she was able to warm up a bit.  After that, it was all fun and games... smiles and giggles!!  She was definitely showing off her fairly new walking skills as well!!  I'm pretty sure that Taleigha wanted to show them every toy, blanket, doll, book, or stuffed animal that she owns!!  Haha!  She didn't even know what to do with herself while they were here! She would grab something, bring it over to them to show it off, and then it was off to the next thing!  That continued for the entire hour and a half that they were here.  Then, something so unexpected happened.  Taleigha started crawling away (towards her room), and I said, "Taleigha, what are you doing!?".  She stopped and looked back at me.  She said, what seemed like a sentence (in her cute little babbling, of course) that ended with the sign language for 'puppy', and then proceeded to crawl into her room.  When one of our visitors asked us what that meant, Clint and I looked at each other with such a look that only we could understand.  I said, "If she comes back out of that room with her puppy, I might just fall over!!"  I'm pretty sure that our jaws fell to the floor when she popped back out of her room carrying her little black puppy stuffed animal!!  I could have just cried at that moment!  My daughter, in her own little way, told us what she was going to do!!! :)) Such an unbelievable... indescribable feeling!!

Isn't it just amazing that God finds a way to remind us of the joy and happiness and blessings we have... no matter what we might be facing!?  

Remember... There is always a reason to smile!!!