Wiggy

Today is our granddaughter's birthday, she is seven years old.  She has a beautiful given name, it is Kierstyn Denae, but when she was a squrimy little toddler her Daddy started calling her "wiggles", it got dropped to Wiggy and it stuck.  I'm sure when she's older she will ask us to quit calling her Wiggy and call her by her name.  I have to admit, it will take some concentration to do so.  I honestly have to stop and think what her name is, she will always be Wiggy to me!

If you had a slang dictionary and looked up "Cute as a Bug's Ear, there would have to be a picture of Wiggy! She has long dark hair that almost touches her waist, dark brown eyes and the cutest speckling of freckles across her nose and cheeks.  And she is as sweet as she is cute.  The typical middle child, she is always willing to give into the others demands.  She gives the best hugs ever!  She loves to play board games and she loves school.  When you ask her what her favorite part of school is, she says "Oh the work!  I just love the work!"  And it shows.  Although she is just now finishing kindergarten she is reading at a third grade level or beyond.


Wiggy's vocabulary has always been huge for her age and some of the words she would use in the correct way would absolutely amaze us!  But even though she had an amazing vocabulary, Wiggy was hard to understand for most of the years of her life.  She had a hard time saying many sound combinations.  Clear up until she started school last fall we would often have to ask her Mom to interpret what she was was trying to say.  She just graduated from speech class.  At her last meeting the speech teacher asked Wiggy how she felt like she was doing and Wiggy immediately said that she thought she was doing good but there was one word she couldn't say right.  The teacher asked her what it was and she told her "geo-cache".  So they worked and before the session was over she could say geo-cache with the best of them!

One of my favorite Wiggy stories took place shortly after they had moved to a new town and her older brother had had a bad day at school because of someone picking on the new kid.  Her mamma had all the kids in one room saying there night time prayers.  As they were praying that things would go better for Kyson the next day, Karen said thank you that Kyson had other friends and a family who loved him and could help him through any future hard times with this particular boy.  Right then, with much enthusiasm, Wiggy jumped up and shouted "And for a PaPa who'll burn his house down if we ask him to!"  (She had easily come to this conclusion because hubby Mark can get rather passionate when he thinks one of his own is being picked on!)

I can't believe she is seven years old already.  My word time flies.  How many times do we hear that said but Wow, is it ever true!  So Happy Birthday Miss Wiggy!  I love you very very much and am looking forward to years and years of fun and laughter with you, and someday you and I will go hunt geo-cache's all day long!