Happy 2nd Birthday, Mia Joy!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday, Mia Joy!!!  It is hard to believe that it has already been two years since we first held your tiny little body. And today you are such a big girl in so many ways. You are no longer a baby and maybe not even a toddler any more. In the last 2 weeks you have successfully (and with ease) gotten rid of your bottle and your paci.  On your own accord, you have decided you want to go to the bathroom on the potty - and you do it often, even when Mommy doesn't ask you (both pee and poop!). Besides these big girl accomplishments, it is obvious you enjoy life to the fullest. You talk in paragraphs and describe things you have never heard me say before. Sometimes, without knowing it, you say something that makes Mommy and Daddy laugh so hard. You like to make us laugh and I think soon you will figure out how to be funny on purpose.

Truly, I cannot say enough about how good you are, how happy you are, how easy you transition in change and disrupted schedule, how well you play by yourself and with others, and how love just jumps out of you all day long. I am amazed each day at who God made you to be and can only watch in wonder as God keeps softening your heart and shapes you into His precious daughter!

Your official stats from the doctor at 2 years old: 22 lbs 11 oz. (6%); 34 1/2 inches tall (70%) and SMART. They couldn't believe how well you could move around (including skipping) and how well you could talk! Keep growing healthy and strong sweet girl. 

It is exciting yet hard for me to watch you grow so fast! God has given you to us for a short time and it is flying by. I sing you a song at night that says Mommy loves you to the moon and back. But somehow it is possible that I love you WAY MORE than that:)  You are the miracle that made me a mommy and changed my world forever.