Adalyn Elizabeth

I knew it was coming. The inevitable shift from Addy getting our undivided love and attention. The knowing didn’t make it any easier. Lately I have been thinking about how it must have felt for her to have such a huge change. In the grand scheme she won’t remember the adjustment period, and she has actually done well through it all. She adores Owen and constantly wants to see baby “bru-er.” She literally gets 1mm away from his face in order to see him. Maybe she has poor vision. At any rate, I have definitely been short and snippy with her. “No” has been a keyword in my vocab and I KNOW you aren’t supposed to say it to toddlers. Whatever. It’s hard to use positive language. Snippiness aside, I feel a sense of loss in letting go of my one and only child — knowing she is getting bigger and isn’t a baby or even a toddler anymore. Ugh. The parental heartache.

Anyway, in deference to Adalyn I am writing a list. A top ten shall we say. In no particular order, here is what I love about Addy these days:

1. Her eyelashes

2. Her fearlessness

3. Her quickly disappearing secret language (was it arabic or greek…only God knows)

4. Her sass (so help me God)

5. Her ability to sleep through the night since an early age

6. the way she says “mommy” — (it is mom-eeeee)

7. watching her dance and shake her booty

8. Her total misuse of “up, down, off, on, closed, open” which leads to much confusion

9. Her amazing (mostly) vegetarian diet

10. Her imaginary friend, gig-uhla, that happens to be one of her hands

There are a thousand more, but this will do. I am going to try to imbibe myself with some more patience and love for her little self. Maybe I shouldn’t be trying to make her potty train…but that’s another story.

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