BEANS NEVER DO GET OLD....

Today our Jilly Bean turns six years old.

It is so very hard to believe six years has passed, so much

has happened, she and her sisters have brought 

us so much joy.
Her favorite food? Beans...
any shape, size, color, Red beans her fave,
hence the title of the blog.

I could write a book just on the antics, things she has said,

done and has learned from us, her first teachers.

Yet, each one of us who love her would say

she has taught us all so much more.

She is loving, more than her 6 years should know,

but on the same note, she can throw a tantrum like

all other six years old.

She forgets very little so don't try and pull wool over

her eyes, she will call you on it! 

I will make this a short blog with a montage of pictures,

leaving you with one story that will show just what

a special child she is to us.

I still, since she is born, spend almost every Wednesday

with her. One this one Wednesday a few 

weeks ago, I am at her house as she gets off the bus.

Her baby sisters are there as well, she rushes off

just to share some love with sisters.

She hugs JoJo tightly, JoJo swats at her face.

With the smile still on her face she runs to baby Jemma,

kisses her and hugs her, Jemma pulls her hair.

She then comes back to her Mumsie for a second hug

and kiss. As I am hugging her I say, 

"Poor Jilly, loving on the babies and they won't give her 

a break"

She responds with a statement that shows her love for 

so many...

''Oh yeah, Mumsie, but I don't care, I love them anyway

and I am going to kiss them and hug them everyday anyway"

Oh we love our Bean!

I often steal her line,

" I could love and squeeze you until your guts come out"

Happy Birthday, My Jilly bean,

"I HAVE LOVED YOU, WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE,

I WILL LOVE YOU, AND YOU ARE MINE"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

This day, 6 years before, just as beautiful then as now

 Bean at 1 1/2 with My Mommy, her Mommee...                              

 A Christmas when she was an only child.

 One of our Mother/daughter tea parties at the church 

I and my children grew up in.

 Our "sassy in a good way"

(as she calls it)

in the church her Mother and her sisters

will be raised  in.

Jilly and her family that she loves so much,

at Gulf Shores.