I know we all have those moments where you look at your child and suddenly they're older than they were the day before. I mean, I know that sounds pretty obvious. We all are older than the day previous, but when you are parent, it's like one day you wake up and time has managed to slip through your fingers once again. It plays tricks on you, time does. One day you are holding your precious baby girl for the very first time and then you blink and her first full year of school is almost over and you stand there dumbfounded and wondering where the next blink will land you.
This girl is sweet and gentle and kind and caring and social...so, so social! I get asked on the daily when we are going to someone's house or when someone can come over on a play date. She loves people. She's pretty outgoing and I love and admire that about her. She's also very intelligent, and so far learning has come pretty natural to her. She can also be very determined when something doesn't come naturally. I remember at the beginning of the school year she wanted so badly to get all the way across the monkey bars. She tried and tried so hard, every day after school. Before long she was gliding across them with such ease and skipping two at a time. She loves school and is not looking forward to school coming to an end.
She will still hold my hand in public. From time to time she will get jealous of how much time her sister gets to spend with me now, which usually results in a mommy/daughter date shortly thereafter. She still cuddles up to me when we have family movie night. She likes it when I sing her songs and scratch her back right before bed. Her laugh is almost the exact same as her very first one, it just has a little older sound to it. She believes in magic and looks for fairies in trees. When I look at her, really look at her, it brings tears to my eyes because I blinked. And she grew up a little more.
