H is almost 2 and half now, my beautiful placid baby who was always content to sit and watch the world go by is now a very cheeky, feisty and loving little girl.
I want to fix her sweetness and innocence in my mind so I don’t forget. I know from experience that memories fade, I can hardly remember how Z and S were at the same age and that makes me so sad.
I want to always remember:
- The way she flings her arms around my neck and says ‘you my best buddy’.
- The way she comes in to the study pulls my arm and says ‘I really need you very much, play with me Mummy‘.
- Tonight she wanted to play Jake and the Neverland Pirate, ‘you be Izzy Mummy, I be Jake‘, then marched me around the house.
- Yesterday as we left to pick S up from nursery she picked up a toy figure and said ‘I take Izzy, make S proud‘.
- I adore how she runs everywhere, how she pretends to make me tea with sugar, and spends hours doctoring me.
- How at the end of Monkey Music when the children lie on the blanket to ‘sleep’ she scrunches up her eyes tightly, making all the other mums laugh.
- How when she spilled a drink today she asked me to put her on the radiator to dry.
- How when we go to bed, she stumbles into our darkened room ten minutes later hair all in her face looking like ET.
- How every now and then she remembers something random. When we leave the house and pass the mat where the reindeer food was sprinkled she wants to know if they ate it, when we go to the park she always wants to see the dogs with coats.
- How she asks for medicine for hiccups.
- How she puts her arms around my neck and gives the best squeezy hugs.
- How she barrels towards me to try to knock me over.
- My gorgeous, funny baby girl.
Aaahh beautiful. It’s amazing how quickly they grow and I don’t want to miss anything either. Gorgeous photo too xx
Thanks Karen
Time goes so quickly doesn’t it? I remember reading your blog when she looked a tiny bit bigger than that first picture! Lovely post! Emma 🙂 x
Thanks Emma, how fast has that time gone?
What a gorgeous post – a beautiful baby to a gorgeous little girl!
Thank you. xx
This is lovely Emma, in fact it made me a bit teary as I feel the same about my Mads. I love the story about putting her on r
The radiator-so cute x
Awww, thanks Katie. xx
this is what blogging is about – memories, look at that dark baby hair that has turned into a wee blondie
At the time you think you will remember everything, yet you don’t. Thank goodness for a blog to capture your thoughts and pictures. I so wish blogging had been around when any of mine were still tiny. This will be wonderful for you to look back upon.
What a lovely post Emma, I know exactly what you mean. I keep questioning what LB was like when she was 2 so I know I will be thinking the same when BB is 4 and JB is 2!! You just want to seal it all in a time capsule that you can open up and look at every now and then. Life is precious, we all know that too well now x
A gorgeous post and such a very good idea to capture these. This post will be one of my Tuesday Treats this week
An absolutely beautiful little girl and this post shows her personality and your love for her very well. Nipping over via Baby Budgetting’s Tuesday Treats.