Babysitter Asks Woman to be Flower Woman in Viral Video (Unique)

Madalynne Scott started babysitting Oaklee Hale when she was only a few months outdated.

The 22-year-old first met Oaklee throughout her freshman yr of school, when Oaklee’s dad and mom, Jordan and Casey, had been fostering two different younger boys. She shortly shaped an in depth bond with the household. Whereas Jordan and Casey had been staying on the hospital with Oaklee, who was coping with some medical issues, Scott introduced them espresso and Chick-fil-A to indicate her help.

Now, years later, Scott, who’s initially from Georgia however at present goes to high school in Cleveland, Tenn., had a really particular query for 3-year-old Oaklee.

“There was at some point I used to be babysitting her and he or she was holding some pretend flowers and I believed to myself that she could be essentially the most excellent little flower woman,” Scott, who’s at present engaged, tells PEOPLE. “I really took a video of her strolling with them and despatched it to [my fiancé] Gavin and stated, ‘Practising to be our flower woman.’ ”

“Whereas Oaklee continues to be so younger, it has been a lot enjoyable getting to look at her develop up,” Scott continues. “She is actually such a bit ball of pleasure. She at all times has a smile on her face and is continually desirous to play and chuckle. I believe what I really like essentially the most about her is that as a child she went by means of a lot, and regardless that she was so younger when all this stuff occurred to her, she continues to be the happiest little woman ever. You’ll by no means know that she walked by means of some very onerous well being issues.”

After brainstorming some concepts, Scott finally acquired permission from Jordan and Casey, and popped the query to Oaklee. When the day got here, she and her fiancé pulled as much as Oaklee’s home, and as quickly as Oaklee noticed her, she ran exterior for an enormous hug.

Scott handed her a present bag. Inside, Oaklee discovered a observe that learn, “Will you be our flower woman?” together with a pair of flower-themed pajamas.

“I used to be truthfully simply so excited as a result of I knew how blissful she could be, and I simply knew that she could be the cutest flower woman and the sweetest addition to our big day,” Scott says.

“My dad and mom thought it was the cutest thought and could be so candy of me to ask her,” she provides.

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Jordan captured the second on digital camera and later Scott posted it to TikTok, the place the video has since gone viral, amassing greater than 2.7 million views and a whole bunch of feedback.

“She was so blissful! Within the video, you’ll be able to see when she pulls the pajamas out and appears at me and Gavin,” Scott remembers. “I so want I had recorded my angle as a result of she checked out us, smiled so massive, her mouth dropped broad open, she was simply so excited. After I confirmed her the gown she would get to put on, she was so blissful and smiley!”

Studying by means of the feedback on her viral video, Scott says it made her coronary heart full to see simply how sturdy the bond between babysitters and the kids they look after will be, and the way frequent it’s for others to incorporate these kids of their particular moments.

“I don’t assume I spotted how many individuals ask the children they nanny or babysit to be a part of their day,” she says. However, she provides, “I believe one of many feedback that stood out to me essentially the most and acquired essentially the most likes as properly stated, ‘The best way he seems at you holding her.’ I believed that one was simply so candy and so tender.”

“Gavin loves Oaklee and Oaklee loves Gavin,” she says. “It makes me so excited excited about marrying him and having our personal children at some point, as a result of he’s going to make the best possible dad — and I believe individuals can inform that simply from the way in which he seems at me.”

Trying forward towards her marriage ceremony day, Scott says she is aware of it will likely be one of the best day ever and he or she’s so grateful that Oaklee and her household might be with them to have fun.

“I hope that folks see true pleasure,” she provides. “There may be so many unfavorable tales and issues on the market about babysitters or individuals watching your children and never with the ability to belief them and people are positively actual, however I believe generally we don’t spotlight the great issues sufficient.”

“There are such a lot of individuals who will love and cherish kids,” she continues, “and wish to look after them and make them part of our lives.”