Sarah

 Our seventh child turned 14 this month. Wow.

She is taller than Daniel, age 12.

She is taller than Mom, age 55! I am 5 ft 8+ inches tall and none of the older girls are taller than me. But when you throw the genetic dice enough, eventually you get a very tall daughter! I think it is fun that she is 5 ft. 10 inches tall though hope for her sake she doesn't get a lot taller. Because buying clothes is harder when you are super tall.

She is probably about done growing.

I took her to the doctor for a teen checkup and she is very light for her height and age, and actually lost a little weight last year. That isn't very good though I have had other children who were overly thin. However, after discussions, we realized Sarah just isn't eating a lot. She is the kind of person who eats a lot when she likes the food, but doesn't feel like eating when the food isn't wonderful. We discussed this and agreed she needs to start eating more. Joseph is the same way and is slowly crawling higher on the weight scale, which is a good thing. 

I was thin in my youth as well, but I always ate. I like eating. The idea of just not eating when the food is boring isn't the way I operate :-).

But yes, she is working on eating more.

She is very creative. She made this little plushie on her head with no help from me. Nada. I am very incompetent with sewing and she and a couple of the other girls are AMAZING!

I am very thankful for every one of the children. Sarah was a 'triple rainbow' baby, which means she was born after three miscarriages. I thought she would be our little caboose and then God blessed us with Daniel and then Rose!

One of the funny things around here is that because Angela and Sarah are over three years apart, I have long lumped the six older ones together and the three younger ones together, and for years I called the three younger ones "the little ones."

Now Sarah is taller than me so that doesn't work :-).

So now they are "the younger ones".

Thanksgiving is this week and I am excited and grateful for many things.