Didn't I tell you? Good, down home music. I was reminded of that song last week, when I looked out my back window and saw this.
Everything that's important to me, right outside my window (if you click on the picture, you'll see Steve is in there, too. He just got chopped off on the blog. Didn't want you to think he wasn't important to me!). I am a lucky girl. And then I walked outside to take a few more pictures and I noticed some real, live sisterly love. Not the knock-down, drag-out, hair-pulling, full-body-tackling kind of sisterly love. Oh no. I saw the real thing, with my very own eyes and it's all right here, for you to witness.
Ellie was afraid of the sprinkler (which is strange, considering that the girl scales the side of the bathroom vanity and performs a dance show on top, carefully side stepping the bathroom sink as she arabesques a full four feet off the ground). This girl seems to have no fear, so I'm not sure why she got tripped up by the sprinkler, but I guess everyone has her own issues (and apparently, Ellie's is the sprinkler). So Kate (being the sweet and kind big sister that she is) tried to calmly coax Ellie in, before running through and demonstrating the safety and fun of the sprinkler.
Ellie wasn't buying it. So Kate offered to hold her hand and gently walk her through the sprinkler (didn't I tell you...that is some serious sisterly love right there).
But when Ellie refused to get close, Kate decided to put her whole body into it (all 35 lbs, which didn't seem to be doing much to move all 32 lbs. of Ellie).
Finally, after much discussion and encouragement, Ellie took the plunge, with Kate right by her side to "watch over her."
And boy, was that little girl proud of herself.
If I was going to write a county music song, I think I'd write about sisterly love, because it doesn't get much better than that!
Ughhh...I can't escape from you can I? Okay, just one bite and I'll hold your head to make sure you don't get too much.
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