I don't know where the time has gone. My baby girl...who was just born...a sweet little bruised face, blonde haired, beautiful, wonderful, baby girl turned three years old on December 2nd. How did this happen? She is a tiny little person...and growing up so fast...I feel like I am letting these beautiful lovely days slip through my fingers. I try to cherish every second that I have with my most precious gifts....but sometimes I get so caught up in trying to get everything done...and living my life, that I don't stop to really appreciate or document the sweet and special moments that take place.
I realize that I am going to be so mad that I didn't journal more...but I am just enjoying both of my beautiful children so much that I don't take the time to write about them the way I once did. But there are certain things that should be documented.....so I will try to capture some of those things here.
Katie started pre-school this fall...just three hours a day three days a week. She was so scared. For such a social little girl....she did not adjust to being in a structured seeting with other children very well at first. (This is a Montessori School so she was the only 2 1/2 year old in a class with kids up to 6 years old so I understand how it could be intimidating.) She would cry and say "please don't leave me there, Mommy" in the mornings before we would leave...then she would stand in a corner by herself for the full 3 hours. I felt sick about it....I felt horrible for doing this to a little baby girl of only 2. Jack started at 3 1/2...and he just loved it from day one...not so with Katie. I knew it would be good for her and would help her in the future (she had been spending her days home with Daddy...much of the time watching television.) Baby girl, I hoep that you understand why Mommy took you there day after day when you begged me not to.
It has been a long road...but she has adjusted now. She is still much more shy and quiet than Jack ever was. She is very social and loves the other littel girls in her class. She does not care for the boys...and actually says she doesn't like them...which is surprising as she adores Jack. But she definitely knows that she is a girl and identifies with them.
She is so tiny (she was 50% in height and 25% in weight...which is small when compared to Jack who was always in the 97% percentile or above). She is built like a very tiny person....she doesn't really look like a 3 year old...more like a very teeny tiny 5 year old. It is cute. She is just adorable because she is so petite looking. She can still fit into some of her 3-6 month old skirts...and I buy her nothing over 24 months. The pants are too short....but if I buy a 3T...they are HUGE on her.
Katie is very smart and loves everyone. Although she has no desire to learn letters or numbers...she is adept at watching people do things in order to learn. She teaches herself all of the practical things in life (in a way that Jack never did). She was putting on her own shoes and buckling herself into her own carseat at 2. She carries a stool around with her everywhere in order to do things herself. She si determined and her vocabulary is fantastic. Her teachers say she speaks like an adult and is extermely mature. There is nothing babyish about her. She is always thinking, looking at things and considering them, figuring out how to do something or how to achieve the end result she wants. She is smart ina way that is not measurable. I know she will achieve great things. I just know it. She is always thinking.
She loves candy and sweets and is not a great eater of other things. She loves "noodlies" and french fries...and candy. Did I say she loves candy? Every little purse that she has (she loves purses...carries them everywhere) has little stashes of hard butterscotch candy or any other candy she can find. Jack would take months to each 1/2 of his Halloween candy...and we would end up throwing most of it away. not Katie. She has littel stashes of wrappers from candy that she has eaten...and little stashes of candy for future eating sprees all over the house. I opened Jack's toybox once and found a Mystry Machine full of little candies and knew that Katie had been at work!
Katie is in ballet class and is doing really wel. She is the youngest in her class...and is naturally good. Katie is naturally athletic...and is graceful and able to do most things that require any sort of physical dextarity. She often is heard shortening my name to "Mom" in a teenager sort of way....but Mommmmm...it is so funny...Jack never did that. She adores her brother and alwasy takes two of everything to be sure that Jack gets one too. She LOVES animals...and even though we have a lot of animals...you can always find her holding or petting one. She doesn't seem to get tired of them...adn they alwasy bring a smile to her face. Katie si the one that can reconize when you are upset or feelign sad before you decide to share those feeligns with the rest of the world. At three she is a great judge of emotions and is truely emptheic....if a three year odl ahs that capacity. It surprises me sometimes. I will get angry at her...and be waiting for some emotion from her and she will show none. Then I will see her out of the corner of my eye turned the otehr way and crying to herself. She is my strong and loving girl.
She reminds me so much of myself. I hope that she doesn't feel that she has to be strong for everyone else. I love her so much. My stomach does little flips when I think about her because she makes me feel so happy. I wish I was holding her right this minute....my baby girl. She is my heart she is my love.
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