New Skin

I've heard it said that you change your skin every seven years. Which may not be scientific fact. But, if there is a grain of truth to it, then Chase has finally shed all of her baby skin.

That little baby that came home from the hospital at 5 lbs... the cranky newborn that took months to outgrow colic... the one that made me realize that children expand your heart tenfold... the girl who made me a mother.

Happy Birthday to Miss Chase Alexandra Godale. You are now 7.

You make me laugh, you make me cry, you make me proud, you make me think, and have even been known to make me scream. And, I love you for it all.

Now, I have also heard that 7 begins the age of reason. I hope, beyond hope, that this is true! Please be reasonable and not call your sister an alien. It makes her mad and she bites you. You have been warned.

But maybe reason and reasonable are not related, after all...

*Birthday "part one" pictures are on their way.