15 years ago

Fifteen years ago I had my last baby in the back bedroom of this same house. 9.3 pounds , it took me too long to push her out due to her size and the fact that she had her arm over her head pushing shoulders first. The home birth "helpers" told me they would have to take me to the hospital, I was bleeding to mush they said, I said just wait a minute and out she popped with a headful of dark wavy hair. Another beautiful,healthy girl the third and the last! We named her Brianna Dell Stahl otherwise known as Babe or Brie to her friends(nobody in the family is allowed to call her Brie).

Two weeks later I had chicken pox I past this on to her and the other two toddlers, her first weeks of life I am sure were torture she had sores on her diaper area that were so hard to keep dry and took forever to heal. I am convince that this made her pain tolerance a bit better than normal. Oh... she still whines but not as much as most adults I know .

Fifteen , she will start to learn to drive, ask for more independence argue about more things,start thinking more and more that her parents are not as smart as herself. Fifteen this awkward, wonderful ,magical frustrating age. She is my fearless one, willing to go head on into and try new things . She was always the one who would climb up on the highest points in our old apartment and fall. She picked basketball as her third sport, against every body's advice and is doing quite well in it. She is boisterous(yes the kind word for loud), beautiful, brash and very bright. She will do well this third child of mine, I pray and I hope. Happy Birthday Babe, I do love you even when I say stop being a Brat! :)