My Growing Girl

...an Update before her World Turns Upside Down.

Adalynn is growing up SO much every day, it's freakin' me out a little. And the things she learns? Yikes! I have no idea how I'm going to keep up with her in a year. It seems like at this rate it's going to be tomorrow when she walks up to me asking about Trig, English Composition, or, worst of all, BOYS. No child, NO!

Daily she is learning new words and incorporating them into her ever growing vocabulary. And when she decides to pull them out she will start off quietly, then with ever-growing emphasis repeats them until we have to understand, or we get the, "Seriously? Are you stupid?" look and she brings us to the object or does it herself. She is a great helper; picking stuff up, wiping stuff off, and following me around with the vacuum attachments when I'm attempting to suck our floor clean of copious amounts of dog hair. She loves to help Trav drive (only around the house, of course) and is in L-O-V-E with all kinds of farm animals. Lawsy mercy, she is a girl after my own heart. And her daddy's too...she loves to help him when he is working on his projects, with the correct tools (i.e. big hammers, full-size screwdrivers, etc), of course. I worry about her handling these fit-for-adult items sometimes, but she handles them with amazing grace and coordination. Unless she's tired, at which point she becomes a clumsy nightmare.

Adalynn also LOVES to visit her grandparents...all of them...Grams on Mondays, Nana and Papa on Tuesdays, Grandpa and Grandma each Thursday, and Opa and Oma on the in-betweens. Each one of them spoils her fully and teaches her great new skills - singing and the arts, playing in the pool and with cousins, how to get suckers from the bank. At Opa and Oma's house, Adalynn plays on the big people swings like their neighbor boys...

So, my dear Adalynn, you are very special and unique. You have an amazing gift of making everyone in your presence feel important and loved with your wide smile and easy laugh. Your daddy and I love you very much, and even though this new baby will take up some of our time and space, you will always be our first little girl and we will never forget these times with you. Love you, Peanut Brittle!