Another year has come and gone and I cannot believe that my baby is 4!!! She is still all about princesses so we made a pink castle cake this year. Maleina helped me assemble the towers and place the flowers on the cake. As we were decorating her cake she started planning next year's cake already. Hooray for another version of a castle cake next year!
Maleina has grown so much this past year. She has learned to do buttons, snaps, zippers, gloves with fingers, and getting into mischief being her all time favorite. Hopefully one of these days she will grow out of getting into trouble (talcom powder all over Grandma and Grandpa's bathroom being the most recent). Her favorite activity would be to draw, paint, color, or cut (not her hair anymore...Thank Heavens!!). For her birthday Mark and I gave her an art easel with paints, a roll of paper, chalk, and paint brushes. She has already used half of the roll of paper and paints all the time. I don't even bother to put it away because the next thing I know is she will want to paint again.
We are so blessed to have her in our family. She makes us all so happy. I remember one night a couple weeks ago, she was so sick and she goes, "Mommy, you're so cute!" She is always thinking of others and making sure that we are all happy. When Tyler is getting in trouble she will interrupt us and say, "Be nice to him, he is my brother."
For her birthday Maleina's birthmother came over and stayed a night with us. Maleina is blessed to have a relationship with her. She is an amazing person who gave us one of our greatest blessings. She is part of our family and we love her and think of her daily. She made a difficult decision placing Maleina with us and I look up to her for making that choice. We are grateful to her and love her with all our hearts!
