"I Get Up There by Myself"

Mary Grace is a great big sister. For the last six months or so, everytime we go to Chick-fil-A (which is often!), she helps Elsie climb up the jungle gym. It's hard work for her. She actually picks Elsie up by her little legs and lifts her up to the next level. There are probably 6 levels to climb like that before you reach the slide, so this is no small feat. But she started doing this herself and never complains. I have let them stay in there for an hour before and Mary Grace just keeps lifting and lifting Elsie so that she can go down the slide. Up, up, up, and then down the slide. They go again and again and again, countless times. What a wonderful, loving big sister!
Yesterday, Elsie decided that she could climb up the gym by herself. She said, "I get up there by myself." She's still not tall enough to climb up there without something to hold onto on the next level up. But yesterday, she figured out that if she stays to the side, she can pull up by hanging onto the other side of each ledge. I thought she was pretty smart to figure that out on her own.
I pray that these two sweet girls will always love each other just as much as they do now and that they'll always be there for each other. A sister is surely a special thing.