Mother's Day Present

What better Mother's Day presnt then a picture of my love!  Thanks Eliza and Daddy!

 Silly Girl!

 Pure contentment!

 The helmet is half of her body.  Hee!

 I wish this was a Black Eye Susan.  But she loves her flowers!

My silly girl, loves her green gum!

Post Horse Show~ Our little strawberry girl~ 2013

Her "See these!" face!

Competition-Our little Preakness 2013

Eliza's first pre horse show at three years of age!

Our girl was a champ, not a champion but a champ.  I kindof felt like one of those Toddler and Tiara mom's but on a horse making sure Eliza was (in Eliza's words) "show ready."  It was a great event Grammie and Granddad, Oma and Opa, Uncle Bill and Aunt Abbie all came to her first show.  She did "amazing" in our eyes.  As a professional let's just say she was not the "leader of the pack" however, it was a good learning experience, forgetting to put her gloves on,doing her hair to early, losing a button for her pants and not practicing with her feet in teh higher position causing her to lean back.   But we are so very PROUD of Eliza and she wants to do it again (in her words) "tomorrow."  I think that mommy can wait on tomorrow.

This is Eliza with Michelle.  She is the one who has been training her the last few weeks.  She is a senior at my school (though nothing to do with Eliza's training, it was just coincedence that she waws assigned to Eliza.)  She has a gentle soul and works well with Eliza.  Eliza  rode CoCo today.  He is a bay pony.  She did 3 divisions walk, walk-trot, and trot or walk over the poles.  Now for the competition pictures in the next post.  If horse lovers are reading this post.  Both Eliza's daddy and mommy have never rode so please excuse me if the termology is wrong.  ;)

SNEAKY

Growing up, I always thought of sneaky as a "bad" word with a bad connotation but Eliza uses it as a cute word, saying, "Sneaky, Sneaky Sneaky" when she is being playful.  This picture of her captures her in her "Sneaky way!"

Oma's Dresses

Oma started making Eliza's dresses around the age of two, we have many in between they are such treasures and keep sakes for Eliza to hand down to her daughter.  We are so very lucky!

Omi and Aunt Abbie teach Eliza the love of a garden!

Eliza loves gardens, plants, planting, worms, flowers.

Daddy's Ring

Eliza's daddy so loves her.  When we were at Amanda and Lee's wedding, Richard found a little jewelry shop.  They had children gold rings, he let her pick out the ring, bridge seeting with a blue topaz and she loves it.  She wears it to the Daddy daughter dances and pretends to marry Daddy nightly.  It is so cute.  I tease Richard, saying, I thought you were only going to get married once.  I think we have had at least thirty wedding ceremonies in the last year.  Our Daddy is one lucky man!  Two Spicy girls that love him so very much!

You can see her SOUL through her eyes!

SO LOVED!

To Eliza's birth mom!

Dear Women which I share my MOST TREASURED FORTUNE With:

As we embark on this 3rd day as Mother and Daughter, we share this day with you.  You are the reason I am a mommy, not just a mom or a mother but a mommy!  For without you there would be no Eliza.  It was not just a physical sacrifice but I am sure a mental one too!  What I would tell you today is she is SO LOVED.  I know that every parent says how wonderful their child or children are but she is WONDERFUL.  She is not perfect but WONDERFUL for she is a masterful teacher and caregiver.  She is spicy, has a mind of her own, has a clear sense of what is right and wrong, stays true to her values but underneath her hard "survival core" there is a sweet, loving, God fearing preschooler.  She makes me laugh and she has taught me so much about myself and made he appreciate my upbringing so much more.  She is FUN!  Sure, there are tough days but the tough days means that she is STRONG.  She is a fighter and she has a fighter attitude towards everything she tries with gumption.  But, she still likes to be swaddled, held, needs the sense of security and oh, boy do we have enough people that are willing and want to meet her needs.  When she looks back on her I HOPE she can say it was full of laughs and giggles, learning, security and boundaries.

At three years and 11 months in age, loves:
-gymanstics, horse backriding, Diego, gone to her first broadway musical- Peter Pan, loves going to the Smithsonian, visits to the local Salisbury Zoo and to the Washington DC zoo, loves going for SUSHI and Dim Sum, has a close group of friends including: Brynlee, Finn, Kadence, Ayden, Zachary, Violet, Charlie, Emily, Ryker, Danica, Molly, Hayden, Lailan, Jacob (in no particular order and I am sorry if I left out any.)  She has a social calendar busier than mine but that is not hard.  LOL!, loves Disney and Nick JR., she loves plants, gardens, enjoys, painting, coloring, tracing letters, skipping, dancing, loves the show "Big Bang Theory" and calls Sheldon, "My buddy!" ( I know, not the best mother award here but we laugh and laught!)

I know you SO LOVED your baby girl too!  Here is how, I know.  I know that you probably look at every little girl in your provience, maybe even scourer over blogs looking for that marking.  She wears that marking proudly for you!  I do NOT have the answers for her only you do, but the answer I have for her is you are SO LOVED! 

I do NOT have the answers for her only you do, but the answer I have for her is you are SO LOVED! So, Happy 3rd Mother's Day to you also! My little preschooler and our baby will remain and will always be SO LOVED, you can reassure that!


Happy Mother's Day!

Love,

Eliza and Eliza's mommy






Love,



Eli