Growing: 05.14.2013

November 8, 2010

“Like this, Daddy?”

“Yes! Just like that, perfect.”

I watch on as my daughter and my husband try to recreate a photograph he took nearly three years ago. This time, it is a bit more challenging. She is questioning his every move. Instead of peacefully nursing like she was the last time, she flings herself headfirst down the nearest slide. It takes a while but he gets the shot. The difference between them brings tears to my eyes.

Our little girl is growing. And fast.

I am completely unsure of where the time went. It seems surreal that our little person is so big.

33 months today.

We have grown, too. As parents. As a couple. As humans.

Confidence has replace the uncertainty of adolescence. Complete and utter happiness in the space that angst used to fill.

May 14, 2013

We started out as two semi-broken, very young, people. Today, we are a blissful, content, family.

In the beautiful chaos of life, I don’t noticed the little moments of growth that accumulate to our present. I think my next step will be to slow down. Acknowledge those moments. Live in them. Breathe them in. Surround myself in them, then, let go.

Change, growth, progress. Without it, we would go nowhere.

“Mommy!!! Dinner is ready!! You hun-grr-ee?”

Her sweet voice, the one I once dreamt about hearing someday, snaps me out of my daydream.

“Yes, sweetheart, I am on my way.”