{ So Suddenly }

-She can and does unbuckle her own car seat.

- She is saying " I can't." Even though I have outlawed that phrase in my house.

-She is also talks to me from her crib when she should be sleeping, but then she says things like this and it instantly redeems her for not being asleep:

Girlykins- " Mommy, knock knock!

( At first I pretend to ignore her )

Girlykins- " Hey Mommy?"

Mommy- " Yes?"

Girlykins- " I love Daddy. "

Mommy, sounding all choked up " I love Daddy too."

Girlkins- " Yes, me too Mommy."

-She runs everywhere she goes but it's more like this half skip, tippy-toed floating movement that is just so darling. And her then there are her curls. They bounce along cheerfully behind her the sight of which delights me many times a day.

- She is asking a million questions. " Mommy what's that thing called???" or, " Mommy what's that girl (durl) doing?" Or " Mommy we are we going to get a baby sister?"

- Which reminds me of how she tells us that she has a baby in her tummy, even though we've have explained very thoroughly to her that isn't the way it works.

- If anyone calls her a baby she right away corrects you and says: "My not a baby, my a big durl."

- The other night we asked if she wanted to pray and she said " Hi Jesus. You are my nice friend." Melts my heart like nothing else to hear her talk to Jesus.

- We tell her to "STOP" and she runs faster in the opposite direction. Yes, I know it'd dangerous. We are working on it.

- David told someone the other day that she was two-and-a-half and I wanted to argue with him and deny it. But I can't because it's true.

- Instead I redetermine to

- Embrace, embrace, embrace.

- Each new day.

- Before they are so suddenly,

- Gone.