My Baby Lady is 4.58

Sary you are 4.58 years old.  I realized how nice it was to pause and think about Piper when she was 18 months so I decided to devote this blog to you.  At this moment you are suffering from your first heartbreak.  Your best friend Nick has relocated with his family for a year to Shanghai.  You are quick to remind me he is not your best friend you are going to marry him.  I remind you daddy is my best friend. 

 

You tackle life with joy and tenacity.  If there is an event you must attend, if there is a party you must go, if there is an extracurricular you want to be enrolled.  You love ballet, soccer, Giggle Bytes, Fit Kids, swimming and gymnastics.  But you get tired and like mommy and daddy you need help choosing which events and activities to participate in.  We will not be doing classes on Sunday anymore because as it should be church trumps everything in your life.  Even a ballet recital which you loved at the time but were upset that you didn't get to go to church.  "It was not my choice to miss church!" It is so hard for mommy now that you know your schedule.  Because even though your choice is church when you missed swimming for choir you cried immediately after coming off the stage.  So loudly that several people thought your friend Donavan had "done something to you." 

Your first lesson in choices was when you had to choose between Giggle Bytes and Fit Kids because the are both year round classes at Horizon.  Horizon Child Development Center is your "school"  you love your teachers and you have so many friends there.  You have gone to Horizon since you were 9 weeks old.  You had babies you liked and babies you didn't like from the very beginning.  It is amazing to me the depth of the friendships you have made.  At the same time the girl you used to talk about all the time Emma moved and you never mentioned her again.  But then again you always had Nick.  Now you have Trisha since Nick is away.

My favorite thing about my 4.58 year old girl is that I am your favorite person.  I am the center of your world.  You get upset when I have to go to work early and I do not wake you up.  I love that we get to snuggle and talk every night at bedtime.  I miss my quiet evenings watching TV with Daddy, but I know that this is only temporary. If I don't listen to all the things that are a big deal to you now you won't come to me with the big things when you grow up.  You are growing up way too fast, already.