How Can it Get Any Better?

Mattilee is such a great sleeper. Like at least 12 hours a night and usually 2 naps a day kind of sleeper but she sleeps lightly. Just quietly opening the door to her room usually wakes her up. So on this day, when she didn't wake up with me coming in the room, I just had to snap a picture of our sweet sleeping beauty.

Gigi bought both her granddaughters a Dora doll and they both love their doll. Now Gigi bought them both purple backpacks like Dora. :) Mattilee LOVES her backpack. She wears it around singing "Backpack, backpack."

Mattilee isn't that messy of an eater so I wanted to document this particular run in with watermelon.

She managed to get these paper towels out of their package (which was already open) and unroll them within about 3o seconds or so. It's amazing the mess she can make so quickly!

Trying to show off her toenails after Mommy gave her her first pedicure.

Her daddy asks me to text a picture pretty much every day while he is at work. One day he asked me to send him one when she got up and I completely forgot. I got a call while we were in the grocery store inquiring about his picture so I took this one and sent it to him. :)

I think this one was taken a month or two ago, but she just looks like such a big girl I wanted to post it on the blog to remember.

I have truly loved every stage of Mattilee's life and feel so blessed to be get to be a part. Every stage is even more fun than the last and I'm wondering how much better it can get. Does it keep getting even better? Or does the fun fizz out with the terrible twos? I know I will always love her unconditionally but will I always be overwhelmed with how in love I am with her? Will that fade as she becomes a teenager and doesn't want much to do with me? I guess I shouldn't spend much time pondering these things and just soak up every sweet moment I'm given with her for now.

Matti is talking up a storm. She says so many words and adds to her vocabulary every day. She's been putting words together like "juice please"when she is thirsty or "Mama, on please" when she's riding in the car and would like the DVD player on. She says Mama and Daddy probably 50 times a day but we love hearing her call for us, for now.:) She has the sweetest voice and I'm loving listening to her talk all day. Her Gigi taught her that an elephant says "Roll Tide" and it's the cutest thing. Even though her Daddy is an Auburn fan, he too finds himself asking her what the elephant says because it's just so cute. He's tried a few times to teach her that the tiger says "War Eagle" but she isn't catching on quite as well to that one. She has such a fun little personality. She loves to have every one's attention and loves making people laugh. She is also still so loving, she loves to give hugs and kisses away. I hope she'll always be affectionate with us. She will say "love you" in response to Matt and me telling her that we love her. But the other day, while putting her in her car seat, she said "Mama, I love you" so clearly. It was the sweetest thing and completely melted my heart. Words can't express how much joy that little girl bring to our lives.