Fat Little Fairy

Despite what the weather man said, today was a beautiful day! The unexpected beautiful day is my favorite kind, and as I was walking home from work I was thinking about my favorite childhood story, "The Fat Little Fairy". It's the story of a fat little fairy who thinks she isn't as beautiful and graceful as the other fairies. The other fairies dance and sing and flit and the fat little fairy just sits on her tree branch watching thinking how she wishes she was more like the other fairies. One day, a beautiful woman comes to choose a fairy to take home. This woman is so beautiful that all the fairies dance around her singing, "take me! take me!" The woman can't choose... until she sees the fat little fairy sitting on her tree branch crying. She runs to her & says, "I choose this one!" The other fairies can't understand why she would choose the fat little fairy. She can't even fly! But the woman says, "She's not a fairy! She's a baby! And I love her!" Then she kisses the baby's tears and kisses the fat little dimples on her knees and kisses the fat little dimples in her elbows. (Isn't that a funny story to be my favorite? :) ) When I got home, I couldn't wait to kiss the dimples on my fat little fairy! (And she is getting chubbier every day!) So here are some newborn pics as an ode to my fat little fairy: