July 13 Sunday 2008

I’m going to attempt to keep a journal for the girls…something for them to read about themselves at some point if they want.

Jackie is 2 now and, by far, the best of blessings for me and Steve. There’s no telling what we’d be doing if she had not come along when she did. That’s another story.
This will be, for the most part, about them.

We cleaned up our bedroom sort of this morning. Daddy is going to rearrange, so I opened some notebooks. I showed Jackie a picture of Papa, my Papa Frank Wilbur Davis. I told Jackie and Jayden how smart and great he was and told them that they could be anything they wanted to be. Maybe his history will carry Jackie’s love of planes to even higher places. Jayden is rolling around everywhere and today I had to get off the toilet in mid stream with my pants down to keep her from her first fall off the bed. She has already outdone Jackie so far in the falls…hasn’t had one yet. Maybe I’ve just got more practice now and more aware of do’s and don’ts with a baby.
Jackie is getting to know Jayden a little more every day. When she first came along, Jackie didn’t quite know what to think and often told me, “Put baby in the bed, Mommy”. Now that Jayden is becoming mobile and smiling and laughing at every move Jackie makes, Jackie is discovering that she has quite a captive audience in her little sister. She sang the ABC’s out of the blue the other day at the top of her lungs, and TOOK A BOW! Her little head bent down and her arms way up behind her back! I just laughed and laughed because I’ve never told her to take a bow or showed her how to bow… she just did it! After she takes a bow, she’ll very quietly say, “Take a Pow, Mama”
Every day, she amazes me.