Cupcake,
You will be four years old in June, and you say the funniest things. Your vocabulary is growing in leaps and bounds (hell, you know what leaps & bounds means!) and you surprise me, all the time. It’s little things. Today while we were going potty you put your hand on my knee while getting your Pull-Up on. You said to me, “I’m holding your knee to keep me steady!”
For some reason, that sentence crushed me. You’re not a baby anymore. You use words like steady in context, instead of just saying “so I don’t fall down.”
You are currently obsessed with dresses. Not all dresses. In fact, half the time the “dress”you want to wear is a tunic with leggings. Your favorite, though, is this shirt and pant combo that Nana gave you. It’s light purple with little white flowers all over it. The shirt has a ruffle on the bottom and it’s a little bit long. You call it your purple dress. You would wear this every day if you could. You completely freak out when we tell you it is dirty and needs to be washed.
Last night you were extra cranky. You missed your nap, and I didn’t catch your tired signals in time. Nothing made you happy! You wanted more tv, but I shut it off AND made you put on pajamas. OH THE INJUSTICE OF IT ALL. You pouted and balled up your little fists and said “Mommy, you made me mad because you turned the tv off. You made me mad because you put these ‘jamas on me. I’m grumpy.”
I told you that I was proud of you for using your words instead of having a temper tantrum, and then I played peekaboo and tickled you into a good mood again.
You are so independent, my beautiful girl. I long to hold you and cuddle you all the time but you just want to run and play. I cherish our moments. I love you.
Love,
Mommy (thank god you started calling me Mommy again! )
Ohhhh liking the new site. Purty.
It’s cool when they get all big, but also sorta sad.
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MommyGeek Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:48 PM
@Issa, thanks sweetie
It’s cool, and sad, and frustrating, and astonishing… every word in the English language. All rolled together.
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I so relate to this. My youngest just told me recently “I’m not a baby” for the first time. (I call everybody in the house baby when momnesia prevents name recollection.)
Thanks for sharing another growing up moment. I swear they grow when I’m not looking, no matter how hard I try to keep up.
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February 22nd, 2010 at 12:47 PM
@Karen, they seem to grow even when I’m watching carefully. Such is the circle of life, huh? Makes my heart full of joy and sadness all at the same time.
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they grow up way too fast.
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“I’m holding your knee to keep me steady,” so cute! Boy, do they grow up fast.
Hugs and Mocha,
Stesha
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Awwww. That’s all I can think of to say. Awwww!
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What a sweetly poignant passage, but just one of oh so many to come, yes? What a wonder and a joy to accompany your little fashion maven on her evolution. I hear how it grows you.
This is good stuff, Caitlin.
Molly Burke CPCC MSU
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It’s such a contradiction watching them grow, isn’t it? All at once you are so pleased and proud you could burst, and overwhelmingly sad to see them break a little further away. Is hard, this parenting stuff.
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You have such a gorgeous heart. (And amen, I’ll cry the ugly cry when my kids switch to “mom.”)
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