What we Love About Chloe and Lily!

Thank you, Julie and Stanton, for trusting your sweet little Chloe and Lily to our care during your ordeal with Brigham. We grew very attached to them. I won't pretend it was easy, because it wasn't! But nothing worthwhile is easy, now is it?

Things we love about Chloe in no particular order:

1. Her sensitivity to what was happening to Brigham and an interest in seeing all the pictures and videos.
2. Her attachment to her mom and dad and the desire to watch their wedding video every Sunday before church.
   
3. Her beautiful dimpled smile and twinkling eyes!
4. Her love of being read to and the ability to figure out the ending of a book at the beginning!
5. Her desire to be a peacemaker even though that desire did not always win over.
   
6. Her love of the bathtub!
7. Her head-strong personality which when channeled is an amazing force for good!
8. Her teaching me to stop and really listen to what she is saying!
9. Her awareness of nature...the robins for instance.
10. Her preference for the princess movie "Pocahontas" when I told her Pocahontas was a real person!
11. Her social awareness.
12. She is a great sleeper!
13. She knows exactly how she wants her hair done each day and will tell you!
    
14. In many ways she is old beyond her years. Sometimes very profound things come out of her mouth, like when she saw her mom after three weeks and saying "Mom, it is so good to see you again...No, it is so good to TOUCH you again." (She had seen her on web am several times.)
15. She gives the best squeezes and loves when in the mood.
16. Her sweetness in volunteering to me, "Grandma, I am really going to miss you." And then recounting all of the fun things we did while she was here.
17. She is an amazing little athlete! The girl can kick a soccer ball around rarely missing and getting it to go just where she wants it!
    
18. She loves all kinds of sports and is not a bit intimidated to try anything new.
19. She is a FISH in the water and loves to try to dive in the deep end or just cannonball off the edge. Thank goodness for great water wings!
20. She is great at memorizing books and songs.
21. She loves (and knows) the Brite CD's and loves to dance to them.
22. Chloe loves to figure out a moral to every movie she watches.
23. Her forced laugh when something really tickles her.
24. Her amazing agility with the computer mouse and playing the online games in the Friend on the Church website...amazing watching her do the puzzles and matching games particularly!
    

Things we love about Lily in no particular order:

1. She looks as much like Stanton and Chloe looks like Julie.
2. Her darling sense of humor and the hilarious things that pop out of her mouth!
3. Love to watch her ride the bike or her scooter! No fear!
4. The sound of her little footsteps coming up the stairs first thing in the morning.
5. She always wakes up happy and ready to be snuggled! (Grandpa's time with her!)
6. She is very head strong. That will be a good thing someday as she learns to control it.
7. She loves to dance.
8. She especially loves to sing and can memorize on a dime!
9. She sings right on pitch!
10. Lily is dramatic!
11. She loves to look at herself in the mirror. (Doesn't every child?)
12. Her manners. When you ask her to do something she says, "No thank you!" Hilarious! I quickly learned not to ask!
13. The lilt in her voice!
14. Her ability to quickly forgive.
15. Her love of "panpakes".
16. Her ability to tell me what color her day of the week panties were no matter what the day. I had no need to look or second guess! She had them down cold. (So did Chloe for that matter.)
17. Her adorable smile and laugh.
18. No fear performing!
19. Her adaptability.
20. Her love of books.
21. Her love of ALL of the princess movies on my DVD. The girl LOVES PRINCESS MOVIES!
22. She loves to dress up!
23. She got just as much joy out of watching Chloe succeed at the online games as if she were playing them herself. This was one time when she was okay just to watch and they got along famously!

We love you, Chloe and Lily, and will always treasure the time we had with you here at Grandma and Grandpa's.