Lydia Grace Barron and Molly Joy Barron

It's really neat to witness Lydia seeing things for the first time this holiday season. The tree...Santa...hearing Christmas songs for the first time that we adults have heard a gazillion times. Wrapping paper? Oh, she got really excited about that! But then she discovered something she liked even better - curling ribbon! While wrapping a present, I used scissors to curl the ribbon. I was just doing my thing, while she played beside me, then suddenly she began to giggle a little. Then a little more... then a lot! Finally I figured it out. It was the sound of the scissors curling the ribbon. I must have gone through a half roll of ribbon just to curl it all and make her laugh some more. Oh my, it was so funny it brought us to tears. What made it especially great was that she would laugh so hard she would fall over backward. Lydia, you're so cute! She's been a joy from day 1, but lately she is especially playful, sweet and alert. Her little personality is shining and I must say, it's a good one! She is generally such an easy-going, fun little person and we are enjoying her so much. She makes us smile all day long.