thank heaven for little girls!

i talk about my girls a lot.  great things, little things, funny things, aggravating things... the talking seems to run the gamut of topics.  but tonight, i just seemed to take the girls in.  i didn't talk about them, i didn't interrupt their bickering, making up, tickle fight (then real fight), food-stealing, attention-stealing evening.  i just watched.

M is five and so amazingly smart and beautiful.  She is so literal that you have to lay way too many "small details" out for her to even do the simplest of tasks sometimes.  Her smartness seems to crave a bit of common sense, but her heart makes way for where her brain may not lead.  She is sweet and humble and loves her sister (and her family) to pieces.  Tonight, she wrapped herself up in a pink ribbon and hid for me to find her.  When i finally did find her (squished under one of my living room chairs- which could not have been comfy), she sang me an "I love you, I heart you" song.  those were the entire lyrics and it made my heart melt.  She is truly an angel sent down from heaven.

B is two and is truly going on twelve.   She is smart, and I use the word smart for lack of a better word.  She is the opposite of her sister in that she may not have the book smarts (every color is still 'pink'), but she is smart in the way that she knows how to read people, then work people, then get exactly the results she wants at any times.  and i don't just mean that she gets what she wants as in candy (or the latest want in life... "ginger ale")  she gets what she wants in that if i'm upset about something, even not having to do with her, she will comfort me to make me smile.  When M gets hurt, B is the first to get to her to soothe her pain.  If i am frustrated with both girls, she will become the silliest of sillies to make all of us laugh and i will realize that my frustrations aren't nearly as important as the sound of those synchronized giggles.  She is so funny, so sweet, and so smart.  She blows me away when i realize that she is not even two and a half!  her force in this world is more powerful than many i have seen in much older, more powerful people.

I am truly blessed to have been given these shining gifts of life.  They brighten even the darkest of days.  I love these girls more than words could ever describe.  Just even writing that has made me smile...  :)