Rilyn!

This is US!! I'll bet you can't tell anything about my kids' personalities from this picture!! I bust a gut every time I look at this picture. Rilyn is our little 4 year old at the top. Every mother must have one child who is bound to give her gray hairs! She has already ran away from home (when she was 2.5, I had to actually call the police to help find her...I was on the phone when she disappeared and she was found at the school behind our house underneath the slide playing in the woodchips!).

I have also had to call poison control on her behalf 2 times, once for eating too many children's chewable vitamins and the other time for eating a little of the dishwasher detergent. We have had to have a "code Adam" called out for her in the store while Christmas Shopping last year. We weren't shopping in the section that she was interested in, so she took off to go and look at what she wanted to!!

But she is the best in our family with sharing. She gives hugs freely! She is smart as a whip. And she is one of my biggest helpers!! She wants EVERYTHING for Christmas. She actually looks around the room and wants everything she sees! I have helped her to make out her Christmas Wish List at least 3 times now! She even wants, "that white square thing hanging on the wall." (The thermostat!) I honestly couldn't imagine life without her!! She is truly one of our greatest blessings!!