To my baby girl.

My baby girl.

How does it happen? How do two years FLY by in the blink of an eye? As I write this, I’ve known for about a week now that you will now always be my NUMBER ONE GIRL. You will always be mama’s angel as soon you will be joined by two little brothers. That in itself brings so many emotions to my mind, but number one being that it’s you and me for life, little C. I hope and pray every day that you and I have the kind of relationship that I have with your “olly”…it’s the best. The best in the world. You, my little colls are the absolute LIGHT of my life and I thank God for that every day.

Your personality and talking has EXPLODED over the past 6 weeks. You pick up on SO much and talk non stop (we still can’t understand everything you say…but your vocabulary has quadrupled in the past month). It’s so crazy. You are still very shy and take a while to warm up to people, but once you do…you are FUN and LOVING and giggle for hours. Case in point…it took ¾ of YOUR OWN birthday party before you warmed up, but after that you had a BALL. I think it was all a little overwhelming for you, but you were so sweet. You love to feed Milly now….daddy and I think we may have to move her food for fear you’ll overfeed her, haha!! You open up all doors now and love to close them, this is a game changer. You always say “tank you mama, tank you daddy” after we give you something. You still call your lovie your “sussie” …where that came from we will never know, but it’s pretty cute. You still LOVE your sussie when you need a little soothing and at night and you still suck your thumb only when sussie is in hand. You love your baby dolls and love to color on your easel. You have almost mastered a tricycle, but your favorite part right now is the bell and pushing it around. “Olly” (one day maybe you’ll switch to Lolly) is still your favorite person besides mama and daddy.

You are still my little short, chunky butt. And I love it. Your hair has gotten so long, we even put in sponge curlers for the very first time on your birthday party day….put them in before nap and they were all out when you woke up ( I swear every time I I looked at the monitor you were PASSED out so how did that happen??!). You wear a mixture of 18/24 mo clothes and size 4 or 5 in shoes. It feels as if you morphed from baby to little girl overnight and this mama does not like it. We got a seat for the potty recently so you can start getting used to it, I don’t want to press it to early by any means but my life would be MUCH easier/cheaper if I have you potty trained by the time your brothers enter this world. You always ask to go potty but have only actually “gone potty” on the toilet a handful of times. You have never attempted to climb out of your crib, and I hope it stays that way. Your crib converts to a double bed, but I’m leaving you in a crib as long as I can! You sleep about 12 hours every night and nap anywhere from 1.5 hours to 3 hours during the day. You never hesitate to go down and it makes life so easy for usJ Now let’s just hope your brothers are the same way….ha!

You have entered into an independent streak lately and it’s cute and frustrating all at the same time! “no mama” are constants I hear b/c you want to do everything yourself. Which is great, except for some stuff that I HAVE to help you with and you get mad. Which is not so great! I wish I could bottle up your little voice forever b/c hearing it makes my heart melt. You still don’t really “get” timeout. You don’t have to go a lot, but when you do, you giggle and start counting. I try (and so does your daddy) to be SO stern but it really just doesn’t faze you.

My little colls bolls, I hope and pray you are a loving and caring big sister and that you love your little baby brothers. Your world is going to get rocked when they enter it this summer, but you will ALWAYS be mama’s little girl and I hope you never feel left out or overlooked. I love you so much it makes my heart hurt, you are the absolute best thing that ever happened to your daddy’s and my life. We love to watch you grow and learn and love; we wish we could slow down time a bit, but we try and take full advantage of every walking second we have with you. Happiest of birthdays to our angel baby, you are truly the light of our life.