*cue Neil Diamond*
Poor Caroline. When we named her, we obviously knew about the song, but didn't realize how much both we and my mother would sing it to her.
I have been in denial that she is 1 already. I feel like I blinked and her first year was over. I certainly didn't feel that way about Benjamin! I just about threw myself a party for his first birthday, as I scarcely believed I made it through a year in one piece!!
Caroline means "song of happiness" and she truly has been that for me & Chris. She has been such a delightful baby and I'm so privileged to be her mother. I hope that we'll be able to be friends after she grows up and leaves the house (of course, it would be nice to be friends before that, but I know that is not my primary role in her life). My deepest desire is for her to grow to love, fear, know & serve Jesus.
As some of you know, I was really ambivalent about having a girl. I really wanted another boy, both for Benjamin to have a brother and because I just thought that I was going to have all boys. The ultrasound tech slipped up and told us that we were having a girl. While I was happy that she was healthy, it took a few months for me to really wrap my mind around having a baby girl. I have always been so apprehensive about having to deal with all of the girl issues -- body image, boys, puberty, etc. I'm not a girly-girl and have always worried that I'd have one and not know what to do with her besides ship her off to my mother, the consummate girly-girl!
However, as soon as I saw Caroline, all of those worries and ambivalence flew out the window (at least for another 12 years). I absolutely love having a girl! She is so sweet and so different from her brother (whom I also love & adore, to be sure, but it's nice having a different experience)! I like having the different personality thrown into our family.
I love kissing her chubby cheeks. I love nibbling on her soft toes. I love making her giggle by tickling her or playing peek-a-boo. I love playing her favorite game, pat-a-cake.
Happy birthday, my sweet girl. I love you more than I can tell you. You have brought such delight & joy to our whole family.
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