Happy 9th Birthday to My Natalie!

May 16, 2000 @ 4:26 p.m. Natalie Gwen Graber graced us with your present. I am not sure how Les & I got so lucky to have the addition of a 2nd little Graber Girl but we have been so blessed ever since. Natalie is so easy going and laid back and almost always has a SMILE on her face.

She has a sneaky side to her and likes to pull tricks or tease alot mostly on her Uncles! I think they pretty much give her the same in return! She loves to sing and dance and play her Nintendo DS. Mostly she ABSOLUTELY LOVES SCHOOL and does math problems just for fun! This year she mastered her 3rd grade Math Mad Minutes and completed addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. She even set a record in her teacher's class doing 60 problems in 60 seconds! WOW! I think Natalie said the highest that anyone in previous years had done was 40 in 60 seconds. She also loves learning bible verses for Bible Memory and AWANA!

You love LIVING on the Farm! Last night you told me you were the only girl who wasn't Amish that lived on a Farm and you had been studying levers and axels and different simple machines in science and she knew about those already from growing up on the farm!

She loves to strike a pose for me and always is looking so sweet and pretty in the pictures!
She also LOVES to play with all her heart! She loves hanging from bars and flipping around on the them. She came home yesterday with a BIG BRUISE about 4 inches x 4 inches on the back of her knee/leg from flipping and spinning around on the bars at recess!!! We promptly told her she was NOT to do anymore of those flips! It's terrible that you have to tell your daughter to quit playing so hard! She's going to get lots of playing in today as we are having a Big Birthday party with family and friends today! More pics to come!!