She is almost five years old. It is completely unfathomable to me to think of that...where is the little baby, brought home in a carrier, so tiny I feared changing her clothes and holding her? She has been replaced with a tall and slender, brown haired, brown eyed, little girl...full of life, of laughter and such spunk, it is hard to contain.
With a month left before she embarks on her twelve year school career, and two months left as the mom of a four year old, I hope you will allow me the indulgence of highlighting a few of the more unique things about my beloved daughter.
She loves snow cones, ice cream, and Popsicles.
She is fascinated by frogs and bugs and cries whenever she sees a dead butterfly.
If there is a dog in her sight line...you can bet, she will be petting it and loving on it within minutes.
She loves to jump...on anything, from anything, around the house...she is a ball of energy.
She loves to sing and on occasion makes up some of the funniest sweet songs around.
And speaking of music, she is fascinated with all kinds of it...loves playing on my piano and if she gets her hands on any stick it quickly becomes a drumstick and the closest flat surface becomes a drum. She has favorite songs on certain cds and requests them over and over in the car.
She is a HUGE Monkees fan...no, not the kind that swing from trees, but the band from the sixties...they are playing on her cd player as I type...and she sung herself to sleep tonight to Wake Up Sleepy Jean...
Suddenly, Spiderman and Superman are on her list of favorite movies and cartoons to watch...apparently she is hoping for a super hero to come rescue her!
She is a picky eater...didn't used to be...but now...unless it is a chicken nugget or some fruit...you might as well not take the time to offer to her.
She drinks apple juice from a coffee cup...and calls it coffee...just a little trick she picked up at her friend Kaitlyn's house.
She loves to drink water. Which provides me with a great segue to this...she loves water. Baths, swimming pools, sprinklers, mud puddles...if it is wet...she wants to jump in it. She has been known to take three bubble baths a day...just relaxing and playing with all the toys and bubbles makes her day.
She wakes up at the crack of dawn, refuses to take an afternoon nap and like the Energizer bunny, keeps on ticking until at least nine at night.
She wants to be where the action is, whether that is outside with her dad in the shop or inside with me in the kitchen.
She knows how to change oil in the car...and she can't wait to get her driver's license so she can drive her daddy's 68 Camaro. (how do I tell her that will NEVER happen???)
She loves to read, loves to learn and is fascinated by math.
She loves board games and puppet shows and dressing up like a princess.
She has a favorite Princess gown and magic wand...and yet, she has insisted on wearing the same pair of soccer short and shirt to bed now for a week...
She is complicated, multi-layered, happy, sad, dramatic, funny, creative and the joy of my life.
I can only imagine what the next year will bring...it is a journey full of all the good things in life. What did I do before her?
Living Happily In The Moment!
Bev
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