Mama, next weekend I'll be 7.
It's true. I was there when she was a backache the night before she was born. It can't be labor, Mom; the baby's not due until next week - that was the first grandmotherly comment to be dismissed out of hand.
It's also a touchstone moment - babies don't often do what they're supposed to do when they are supposed to do it and good parents, like Little Cuter and SIR, learn to roll with it..... even when it includes projectile pooping. It's amazing how well you can control your gag reflex when it's your own personal human creation looking up at you through her screams.
And then the random screams become burbling sounds of discomfort and the solutions, though always changing, are, eventually found. Smiles and laughs and recognition; food smashed all over your face and hers, adventures in the real world, and, always, WHY??
School friends and cousin friends and encountering the outside world on her own - and making a place in it for herself. She's grown out of babyhood, living firmly in childhood, and enjoying almost every minute of it.
Opinions are formed. Music is now a shared experience -Taylor Swift, please. Reading chapter books starring glittery unicorn princesses, finding balance while making turns on a scooter, cracking an egg without dropping any shell into the bowl - her body and her mind are exploding.
She's 4 feet tall - and proud of every inch.
Today is her special day. Deliveries and purchases and plans have been made; thinking about them while we talked today made her shiver with delight.
Happy Birthday, darling GrammaDaughter. Grampa and I love you very, very much.
What a beautiful child, and so dear to your heart. Happy remembering on this anniversary of her birth.
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