Happy Birthday, Caroline!!

Our youngest daughter, Caroline, turned 10 earlier this month; it's so hard to believe it's been 10 years. Caroline is the child we almost lost. I had lots of pre-term labor with her and had to be on bedrest to keep her from being born too early. At 37 weeks they decided to do an emergency c-section because they were losing her heartbeat during another bout of pre-term labor. When they delivered her, her cord was wrapped around her neck a couple of times and the doctor said it was good that we had taken her then, because she probably wouldn't have made it otherwise. God showed me how truly blessed I am to have her, and I pray that I never forget that. It also serves as a reminder that with any blessing we have, it is only by the grace of God that we have it.

Caroline keeps us all in stitches, because she's the family straight man. She's also very jumpy, very jumpy. If you are looking at a book that has spiders(her least favorite creature in the world), and you show her a picture of one, she'll jump. She'll jump at most anything, which of course leads to her sisters trying to make her jump even more.

She loves animals(except afore mentioned spiders, as well as cockroaches and sharks), and wants to have as many as we'll let her. She recently received a violin and is in the beginning stages of learning it. She loves to read, her favorite series being,The Magic Treehouse. I think as she grows she will love historical fiction even more.

Here's a picture from last spring of her. (I really need to update our pictures!)