Dear future us:

Mercy is 3 and a half and here is what she is like. She loves to play restaurant and dancing and wedding. She has started honing her mothering skills by playing momma to her dollies including feeding, burping , pottying, and putting them to sleep. She is also learning to hold her sister although Haven is a little large for a 3 year old to handle. She likes her ballet and tumbling classes and sings all kinds of spontaneous songs. She has a high sense of fashion and makes a running commentary on both real and pretend things from morning to bedtime. She is a sweetheart and a handful (very dramatic for better or worse). I enjoy telling her bedtime stories. Over the past year I have made up countless "sad animal stories". They start with an animal that is sad for some reason and end with a plot resolution where they become happy that expresses some moral like playing nice or eating your vegetables or some such thing. She is graceful and musical. She is 3 going on 10. I am getting more serious about purchasing my shotgun to keep the boys in check in the future.