The days fly by

There is this small person. Sh, e was born nearly 5 years ago and when she came into this world, she weighed only 7 pounds and 13 ounces.  I pushed only 2 times to bring her into the world.  It was in that instant that I knew:  I had found a home and been lost forever. 

She spent nearly 2 full years as the only person with a key to my heart.   In that time I took my own toddling steps as a new Mommy.  We were a work in progress together.  I still am.

This small person learned to smile and laugh, to crawl, to walk and to run.  She now plays soccer and T-ball, she dances and can do a mean cartwheel (perfect only in my Mommy-eyes).  She sings as she gets dressed, as she cleans her room (when I make her), when she sets the table and when she plays with her little brother.

She loves school.  I mean, she cries when she is too sick to go. She is learning to read.  She recites prayers aloud.  She is no longer petrified of performing in a dance recital (so long as she has a friend near by).  She still loves to crawl into my bed early in the morning.  She dresses herself, brushes her own teeth and can almost make her bed.  She can’t get enough of princesses, American Idol, bunk beds, playing outside and my computer.

She knows how to pump her legs on the swing, color inside the lines, recognize all of her letters, recite her address and phone number, write ‘mom’, ‘dad’, ‘Delaney’, ‘Cooper’ and ‘love’ all by herself. She can hear a few notes of a song and tell me if Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, or Beyonce are about to come on.

She is a wonderful big sister. I love to hear, “Oh, Buddy,are you ok?”  I know as she grows, she will protect him.

She knows how to get to me – with a ‘kish’, a smile or a “Mommy, snuggle”. I can’t resist her smile, her spunk or her sassy nature.

She answers to Delaney, Mini, Mini D, Damey, Sassy, Sassafras and sweet girl.

Tomorrow, she is graduating from preschool.  A small milestone in her eventually gargantuan life, but such a big moment for me.  She is turning into this beautiful, intelligent little girl. 

I couldn’t be more proud.