Ella is 2!

Ella is two, and I'm not sure how it happened.  Wasn't I just pregnant?  She brings me more joy than I imagined.  When I was pregnant, I worried a bit about having another baby, a daughter in particular.  Cooper and I were so close, so much alike personality wise and how our minds work.  He was my best pal.  I wasn't sure how another baby would fit.  But God knew what he was doing, and Miss Ella Kate is the blessing I never knew I longed for.  She is wonderful.  She is kind and loving, funny and headstrong, independent and sassy, smart and inquisitive, and she is, as I sing to her every night, my sunshine.

Cooper knows us all too well...

In the car today, Cooper started telling me that everyone in our family was good at different things.  Then he would name somebody and describe them with a word or two (usually made up words haha).  He had done the first few before I got the camera ready so he had to repeat them, but he came up with all of this on his own...

My boy

Did you know that I think Cooper is amazing?  I do.  Today in the car we had the most interesting conversation about God, Jesus, heaven and dying.  He, out of the blue, says, "Mom, I can't wait to heaven to see God and Jesus.  Won't that be amazing?"  I almost cried right then because, yes, of course that will be amazing, and how precious is he?  So I say that yes, I think that will be amazing.  Then he says, "And I can't wait to see all of the other people in heaven who will be waiting to meet me.  Like Papaw Cooper, and Oscar (our dog who died last September)."  That one did me in for sure.  Then he wanted to know what I thought heaven was like, and what we would look like in heaven, and why did Jesus's whole body ascend to heaven, but only our souls go and our bodies stay here on earth?  He is curious, and bright, and sometimes a much deeper thinker than I wish, and he makes my heart happy.