has found her toes
uses different voices
loves her saucer
rolls over from tummy to back
hates the sun in her eyes in the car
loves peas and pears and blueberries
says mmmm when eating
scoots in circles
has naturally crazy hair
blows bubbles with her lips
eye lashes getting longer and darker
blue eyes still blue
pulls glasses of your face
puts anything she can in her mouth
pulls long hair, and short hair, and necklaces...
laughs out loud when you try really, really hard
Makes our day everyday
She really does cry sometimes...
But I'm ok with it.
“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. … I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less”
-Anna Quindlen (Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11)
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