This was done a month ago, but pictures weren't added yet, so... I still haven't added photos, but I will!
Oh My Sweet Girl!
You are one month from being four years old, and I am not quite sure how I come to grips with that. You are smart, hilarious, joyful, frustrating, fantastic, loving, kind, stubborn, independent, strong, and an amazing big sister. It is going by too fast for me. Too fast and busy for me to document it all. Too crazy to remember all the amazing things you say, and get them down on paper. I don't want to ever forget them, but I know I will forget most of them. That makes me sad, but then I remember that I have taken a picture of the feeling. I know and will remember how I feel being your mom, how you keep me laughing, how innocent and how grown up you are. I hold onto those feelings and pictures of moments in time, and know that I will always have that... and these little notes that get written far too rarely. Only once a month!
You love Jake and the Neverland Pirates, like a really intense love. You kind of think it is real even though we talk about how it is pretend. You asked me if you could have pixie dust for your birthday, and if you would really be able to fly. When I told you it was pretend, so please don't jump off the deck, you looked up at me with these big doe eyes, and said "No it isn't" You absolutely believed it. While the magical and imaginative part of me wanted you to continue to believe that, the mom and safety first addict part of me said "You have to convince her it isn't real!"
Your birthday party is going to be Jake and the Neverland Pirates. You are so excited! I will look forward to sharing all the festivities. Right now, we are in birthday mode for all of your friends. Parties every Saturday and Sunday. It can be exhausting and expensive, but we love celebrating our friends, and you love going to everyone else's parties knowing that yours is coming up. You are being very patient.
You continue to be an amazing big sister; patient, kind, thoughtful, helpful. You take such good care of your brother, you help with him, you make him laugh and he loves you so much. It is the most heartbreakingly sweet things I have ever experienced. You read to him, sing to him, hug him (a little too tightly sometimes... haha!).
You are so creative; you love to sing, make up songs, dance, pretend, and everything else you can think of. You have us follow your creative lead, and we make up stories with you, sing songs and do dances... among other things. It is the coolest thing to see. I still have to remind myself of your age... you are only THREE! You act so much older that we forget that you still process things many times like a three year old... uncertain of why you feel the way you do, that you might be tired and unable to process, just breaking down. While that can be frustrating, I often remind myself, out loud to you, that mommy and daddy have moments like that too, and it is pretty amazing that you can identify what you are feeling most of the time, and we can help you through it. Sometimes you can't, and that can be frustrating, but we do the same thing!!! Most adults aren't as in tune with their emotions as you are... and that, my darling girl, is incredible... in every sense of the word.
You LOVE your daddy... so much! You miss him so much when he is gone, and just want to be near him when he is home. You want him to help you do everything, and to be with you to help do things you are perfectly capable of doing on your own. I forget sometimes that this is just because you miss him and want to be near him. I love the relationship you have. It is incredible!
Keep being you. Keep being awesome. Color outside the lines sometimes. March to the beat of your own drum. You are an amazing, and fantastic human, and I love knowing you. Being your mom is an honor, but knowing you as a human is a gold mine.
There is so much I want to say, but being a mommy of two and working full time makes me super tired, so that is all my brain can handle right now. I need to write more often, but to be honest I am happy I get this much done. Haha! You keep me laughing, you keep me young, you keep me living in sunshine. I am stunned that you are mine. I am the lucky one.
Favorite Words: Graime Lynn, Glankie, Tempshapure, Isoslation, Gyna (haha) - (what is really funny is that spell check really wants me to fix these words).
You started saying: Orange correctly- Sad Face.
I love you to the moon and back, as far as Jupiter and back to Mars...
Mommy
