Kylie

The first born of the grandgirls, Kylie naturally got a lot of attention.  Kylie you are incredibly sweet, very caring of others and you have mostly grown up with Papa and I, either down the street in your own home with your mommy or in our house.  You love going to Papa's church!  And you are so sweet and loving for Jesus.  You have said you want to be a "preacher girl".  I remember one day you pretended to serve communion to me and Papa and Jann.  You pretended that you were God.  It was the most precious thing!  We all cried.  In the past couple of years, since you have lived here with me and Papa and your mommy and sister, you have grown out of your shyness.  You were so very shy for a long time.  But you had a play at your school and you had a speaking part and you did it!  You did it so good too!  We cried.
When you were just a little baby, I would rock you and sing to you.  I made up a song for you and I know you already know what it is.

(tune of "you are my sunshine".)

"You are my sweetpea,
my little sweetpea,
you make me happy when i am sad.
You are so precious,
my one and only sweetpea,
and I'll love you forever more."

A funny, odd, thing you did as a baby was to scoot on your head everywhere.  Instead of crawling you scooted!  It was the funniest thing.  We have no idea why you choose to get around like that.  Just glad you don't do that now!

You were always a very good baby. It seems you want to please everybody and you mind very well.  You love things to be clean, kind of a neat freak.  You are an especially good artist!  You make straight A's in school and recently made the honor roll!

Something you said one time that I will never forget and have shared with others at appropriate times...
You asked me why God made us.
I said that I didn't really know and asked you what you thought.  You said it is because God has so much love to give that he made us to give it to.  Those are very wise words, Kylie!

Here is a recent picture of you and Snoopy.