Gone are the days
of napping all day and teeny tiny socks and sleepers. Here is this little girl
who taking her first few steps, saying her first few words and stumbles over to
give you a hug!
Yup she’s a super
fun 1 year old. She reminds me every day how fast time fly’s by and how
precious every moment is. She is now sitting down in her playroom flipping the
pages of a book, yes it’s upside down and she is reading back to front but it
still amazes me.
I find myself
looking at her in awe of what she must be thinking of her world and what is it
about that one bunny that she must have with her at all times.
For her first
birthday we of course gave her a cupcake and she proceeded to mush off the
icing and pick off the cupcake part and toss that on the ground and the played
with the icing in her hands like it was clay and she was making a beautiful
piece of pottery; totally not interested in eating it. Go figure.
People are
finally starting to say that she looks like me. Something about little girls
people often say I see more of her dad in her. But now that she is 1 and yes I
somehow incorporate a similar colour in her outfit as in mine as often as I can
to enhance the similarities, she is starting to become her own person.
I am about to
return to work and she to start daycare and how I will miss our frequent
lunches out at restaurants, where she has gotten to know the staff and they
bring her items not even on the menu, I know that this phase is very important
for both of us.
I can only help
but imagine the future one day dropping her off at Grade 1 my husband and I in
tears saying how fast she has grown up and given her a million hugs and kisses
and she says “ok mum and dad you have to go now, I’ll see you after school.”
Yes I’m totally
sure that will happen verbatim. But that’s what being a parent is all about.
This kinda of overwhelming, instant and never-ending love; as if they were
always here and you can’t even remember your life before them yeah that kinda
love. That’s what being a parent is all about.
This year has
flown by, yes everyone said it would, but wow where is the slowdown button. We
are just so lucky to have this little girl in our life she has taught us about
love and life and patience and I don’t think she will stop teaching us things
anytime soon. But that’s ok with us. She is the best teacher we have ever had.
That’s the funny thing about being a parent you are supposed to teach them
everything but the real miracle is when you realize how much they are actually
teaching you.
By Jessica
Sutherland
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