What a WONDERFUL world!!!!

I am constantly amazed at how my beautiful daughter's mind works. Cassie is just amazed and enthralled by EVERYTHING that Heavenly Father made. She wants to know how EVERYTHING works and LOVES to learn about anything and EVERYTHING....especially new things. Cassie is in the CATS program at school....Let me just say that I think EVERY CHILD.....GIFTED OR NOT should be given the extra opportunities for learning that Cassie has received. ANYWAY....Saturday (between conference sessions OF COURSE) Cassie was able to go to the CATS expo...where all of the CATS teachers in the district do a variety of displays, science stuff, dissections, experiments....EVERYTHING to interest someone like Cassie. She had SO much fun! The sheep eyeball dissection was for the 7th and 8th graders....but Cassie talked her way into it and LOVED it. She enjoyed the squid..... and JOY OF JOYS....brought home the "beak".....BOTH with no gloves.....at least at first.....She had a blast "digging" for treasures, having a bubble around her, and visiting with "Einstein". I have tried to figure out what it was that made her the way she is.....well obviously she came that way....but Joel and I, from the time she was TINY just really tried to figure out what she liked and what she was interested in, and just really encouraged it. Even though she was our little girly princess......we loved that she loved her bugs, insects, animals, dinosaurs....and basically, we just really encouraged her to be her. And what an amazing HER she is!! It is a JOY to see the world through her eyes......AMAZING!!