I've fed you too many Mike and Ike's this week. Leftover from my stocking, I sort of wonder if you like them too. Don't get used to them though, because once they are gone they are gone. We can miss them together.
You're dancing now, it's the strangest feeling. Sometimes you'll do a full on flip, other times you just feel like a little bouncy ball in my belly. Your dad can feel you too, I'll call him over, "Feel her, she's moving," then you'll stop. haha. Maybe you're a jokester like us. We are going to have fun in this home.
We named you a couple weeks ago, we both immediately fell in love with Harper. It's so you. I'm now reading To Kill a Mockingbird, by another Harper. Not your namesake at all, but upon choosing it, figured I needed to brush up since so many will associate your name with hers.
I forgot how wonderful it is, I was told you can hear me now, so I've been reading bits and pieces aloud to you, you won't remember any of it though. Scout is such a cutie.
I pray for you so much. Once we found out you were a girl prayers have come a lot easier. There are specific things I pray over you every day.
I pray you'll find your identity in Christ. That you won't look to others to define who you are, but that you'll be secure in who HE says you are. Jr. High and High School can be so cruel, you'll be surrounded by kids looking to be defined, by anyone or anything. My prayer is that even then, you'll be grounded in your identity.
I pray you'll be joyful. You're about to be born into a really broken world. You won't notice it for a while, I'm glad for that. Even in this brokenness though, there are certain people who radiate joy, when I'm around them I feel it. It's like it floats from them to me and I don't want to leave their side, they are insanely refreshing to be around. I pray you'll be like that.
I pray you'll be drawn to truth. That you'll be an honest and trustworthy person and that you'll seek that quality out in the people you surround yourself with growing up. I pray you'll be able to discern truth from lies, its so hard sometimes to know which is which, so I pray for you it will come easy.
I pray you'll be content. That you'll have a deep trust in where the Lord has you, regardless of circumstance.
I pray you'll be a good sleeper. This one might be semi-selfish, haha, won't stop me from asking for it though.
I pray you'll know grace. Harper, it is so sweet. I forget it all too often, I pray you'll just walk in it, extending it to others along the way.
These are just some of the things that have been laid on my heart for you. Some of them the things that I know, from experience, would have made my life much easier to have understood earlier on.
I love you already. I can't wait to meet you. I'm going to start feeding you better things this week, our Christmas candy is dwindling, we'll be alright without it.
-Kelsey
