{"id":6173,"date":"2012-11-15T17:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T22:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=6173"},"modified":"2012-11-15T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T22:01:06","slug":"happy-4th-birthday-emma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=6173","title":{"rendered":"Happy 4th Birthday Emma!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy 4th<\/sup> Birthday Emma!<\/p>\n

Just when I think you can\u2019t get any smarter or more hilarious, you always surprise me.\u00a0 I love how much you love to learn.\u00a0 You are always challenging yourself to memorize things.\u00a0 You have already learned 5 Bible verses since you started school at North Cobb Christian School this year.\u00a0 I love having you at NCCS with me everyday!\u00a0 My favorite part is riding together to and from school and hearing all about what is going on in your mind.<\/p>\n

The first Bible verse you learned was Psalm 86:11, “Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.”\u00a0 Emma, my prayer for you is that this is always the desire of your heart.\u00a0 If you focus on the truth of God’s Word, He will never let you down.<\/p>\n

You have started doing so many fun things this year.\u00a0 Your bike riding is amazing and you love to go REALLY fast!\u00a0 You continue to be our sweet adventurer.\u00a0 You started dance class this fall at school and you love it.\u00a0 I think you like the dance\u2026but love hanging out with your friends.\u00a0 Your dance instructor always says y\u2019all didn\u2019t get to dance much because you were all talking!\u00a0 I hope you, Ella Wallace, and Anhalise Hendrix are always so close!\u00a0 I also love the way that you call everyone by their whole name, \u201cJack Wesley Bitner\u201d, \u201cElla Cathryn Wallace\u201d, and on and on.\u00a0 You are very thoughtful of others and always ask about people.\u00a0 You talk a lot about heaven and ask a lot of questions about God.\u00a0 I love to hear you pray and you always want to lead our family prayers at meals and at bedtime.<\/p>\n

You will have your first cousin this spring when Aunt Katie and Uncle Deedle\u2019s baby is born.\u00a0 You are really hoping it\u2019s a girl.\u00a0 I asked you what you would think if it was a boy and you said, \u201cit\u2019s fine as long as he is a girl.\u201d\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to see how that turns out!\u00a0 But, I know you will be such a good helper to Aunt Katie and you will take great care of your little cousin as you teach him\/her to do all the crazy things that you love to do.\u00a0 I sure do pray that y\u2019all will be close!\u00a0 We also continue to pray for God to keep Eli safe and \u201clet him know we are coming to get him.\u201d\u00a0 We have been praying to adopt a little brother for you for the past two years.\u00a0 It would be awesome if this is the year that he comes home.\u00a0 You are so diligent to pray for him and you always tell your teachers and friends about Eli.\u00a0 He is going to love having you as his big sister!<\/p>\n

This past year you have also started to really enjoy sports.\u00a0 You love to watch football on TV and cheer with Mommy for Alabama \u201cRoll Tide.\u201d\u00a0 We took you to a Georgia Tech football game and you were so excited to meet the cheerleaders!\u00a0 We took you to a Braves game and you really caught on to the Tomahawk chop.\u00a0 The next event will be a Georgia Tech basketball game very soon.\u00a0 Your favorite team is still the NCCS Eagles and you are great about coming to all of the games\u2026even when it has been a long day, you always love your Eagles!\u00a0 And I love that they love you and let you know how much they appreciate you coming to their games.<\/p>\n

You have also traveled a lot this past year!\u00a0 Daddy and I always talk about how cool it is that you have gotten to go so many places!\u00a0 We went to the beach in Destin, Florida for Spring Break.\u00a0 We all went to San Francisco in June with Dad for work.\u00a0 You spent two weeks in Memphis over the summer (most of the first week by yourself at Camp Katie).\u00a0 You and I flew to Memphis for fall break.\u00a0 Next week we are going on a cruise.\u00a0 You love to travel…especially by airplane!<\/p>\n

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At Cedarcrest Church you continue to learn and grow and explore more about who God made you to be.\u00a0 You come home singing songs and talking about where your offering goes.\u00a0 The church is in the process of building a new building to move into in the spring and you are just as excited as everyone else.\u00a0 Our pastor, George, talked about building a place where kids can grow up learning about Jesus and we can\u2019t wait to make even more memories with Cedarcrest Church!<\/p>\n

Emma, you are a joy and a delight.\u00a0 Your Daddy and I are so blessed that God chose us to be your parents.\u00a0 You operate at 100 miles an hour all the time until you finally fall sound asleep every night.\u00a0 You are thoughtful and loving and you love to work hard.\u00a0 You care about others and you love to help everyone.\u00a0 My number one prayer for you as you head into year 4 is that you love Jesus with all of your heart and that you will always serve others.\u00a0 I love being your Mommy and love every second I get to spend with you.<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday my sweet and silly girl!<\/p>\n

Mommy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy 4th Birthday Emma! Just when I think you can\u2019t get any smarter or more hilarious, you always surprise me.\u00a0 I love how much you love to learn.\u00a0 You are always challenging yourself to memorize things.\u00a0 You have already learned 5 Bible verses since you started school at North Cobb Christian School this year.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,12,16,19,23,28,18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-cedarcrest-church","category-emma","category-family","category-funny","category-generosity","category-integrity","category-north-cobb-christian","category-truth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}