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Piper Rose,

If I were like women of the Bible, I would have waited and given you a name with meaning. I would have given birth to you, held you and talked to you. I would have counted and recounted your toes, felt of your perfectly round ears and kissed the insane softness of the fluffy part of your head until it was almost bald. I would have smelled your hair and watched you sleep and gotten to know every one of your cries... And THEN, after having time to know you and to pray about it, I would have named you something that describes who you are; who God ordained you to be before I even knew you.  I'll tell you now, in case your wondering, it would have been a name meaning happy one, or happiness, or one who is glad, who is content, who is a little ray of sunshine.   

You'll hear lots of mama's call their babies their little sunshines and I know now why they do.  Our babies are our sunshines.  Everything can be wrong but when we look at you it all suddenly seems ok.   But when I say I'd give you a name meaning happy one, I don't just mean you're occasionally or even mostly in a happy mood.   I think your joy is one of your gifts.  Maybe it's just because I'm your mama and I'm blinded by my love but I decided the other night that I believe God gave you the gift of joy. And Pipes, unfortunately you'll soon find that the world needs joy.  A lot of it.

So Piper Rose, "don't hide it under a bushel, NO! .. Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine" and know that if I were like the wise women of the Bible you're name could have been Harshit.

You're welcome.

5 easy and painless ways to lose 5 pounds in a day..

1. Eat a suspicious salad at Cheddar's.

2. Get food poisoning

3. Puke your guts up for 5 hours.

4. Dry heave for the next 4 hours.

5. Have no desire to look at food for the next 12 hours.



Did I say easy? I meant phyisically exhausting.

Did I say painless? I meant painless if you're comparing it to giving birth without pain med's.

Not that I'd know anything about that...

Cause you know... c-section and all.

It's just how we roll..

I'd like to share a song with you. It was created for Piper's entertainment by Aunt Ducky, Me, and Carey.


Here it goes.

Oh and it's to the tune of Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys.


Here it goes..



Piper Rose.. Don't pick your nose..

Piper Rose

You got me wipin' and blowin', wipin' and a sneezin', Piper Rose

Pi, Pi, Pi, Piper's nose.



The end.



P.S. Aunt Ducky is Lindsay. FYI.