Dear Baby Girl,
Soon I am going to have to start these letters with “Dear Little Girl” because you, my sweet thing? You are leaving babyhood in the dust. Every day you look and act more and more like a little kid and while sometimes, my heart swells so hard and so fast with pride for all of things you accomplish, other times it shatters into a hundred pieces as I think about how fast the last ten months have gone.
When you crawl to the den time after time again, pull yourself up to the rocking chair and look back over your shoulder silently asking me to do my part, to lift you up and sit you in the chair so you can rock like a big girl, I think about the early days of your life when I would rock you to sleep in that very chair.
When you stand up and suddenly let go, your chubby little legs shaking as you realize you’re no longer holding on, I think about the newborn who smiled sweetly but needed me to support her head when I handed you off to your daddy.
When you wave bye-bye and blow kisses as I leave for work in the mornings and peek at me from around the corner of the chair when I come home, I think about how grateful I am for your sweet, smiling face. How you make having a bad day impossible, because no matter what happens between 8am and 5pm, I get to come home to you.
When I lay you down to sleep at night, and you sigh contentedly, roll over onto your belly and drift off, I pray that your sleep will always be this peaceful and sweet. That you will always feel comforted and safe. That you will always have people around you who love you. And that you will always know where home is.
And as I lay my head on my pillow a few hours later, I think about the sweet girl in the next room who gives my heart such joy, who gives our family such laughter and who gives my life such meaning.
I don’t care how big you get, how many steps you take or how many milestones you leave in the dust, you will always be my baby girl and I will always love you the same way I love you today.
Happy 10 months, peanut.
Love,
Momma
July 30th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
sigh…this is beautiful!
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July 31st, 2010 at 9:29 am
so beautiful. But seriously… how are we 2 months away from our girl’s first birthdays??? I can’t even figure out where the last year has gone.
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August 2nd, 2010 at 2:07 am
Ahh, this brought tears to my eyes. My Little Miss is turning 10 months in 10 days. I agree, the past months have flown by much too quickly.
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August 5th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
This is a beautiful letter! Babyhood is so fleeting.
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