20 Months

I'm always amazed at how much time has passed and how much you have grown. I can't keep up.

I'm having a really hard time with letting my baby go. Your baby pictures make me miss you so much, even though you are right there, right here, in front of me talking to me and wiggling your body and dancing and jumping and screaming. You are a full blown toddler with more energy than I am able to handle sometimes. You are a bundle of joy, excitement, love, happiness, all in one. I love you so much.

You are still small, very very small, despite all the eating that you do. You love blueberries, bananas, mangoes, pretty much all sweet fruits. You love to eat and drink anything from a cup. You play alongside with Pookie very well. You love 'Yo Gabba Gabba' and 'Opa Gangnam Style'. Oh yea, you also love icka (stickers). You call water ja-wah. You call every fruit apple. You say nose and touch mine and yours after every time you get in trouble. You know how to take off your diaper. Oh, did I mention, you're a shoes girl. No doubt about it.

I was thinking how my biggest challenge with you in your first year of life was your eczema and your second year is your constipation. I hope this will be the end of the challenges, even though I know there may be more to come.

I am hoping to wean you from the bottle and have you potty trained by the time you are two. Only 4 more months to go so we'll see how we do. At the same time, I try not to rush it all too much because I want you to go at your own pace and you're still my baby. I think you'll be my baby forever.

You talk so so so much. You know how to be emotional, you know when I'm yelling at you to not hit me. Why is it that you prefer to hit only Mommy? You know I'm the person who loves you the most? I think about you every minute of every hour of every day. I love you to the ends of the world. I've learned to be so patient with you. I hope that continues forever. At the same time, I try to teach you to be a good person so that you'll be better equipped to handle this enormous world of ours.

Sometimes, you give me kisses for no reason at all. I love those the best. They melt my heart and it's so special. You are the sweetest little girl ever. Then like last night, you were supposed to go to bed with Daddy but decided to come back into Mommy's room and I picked you up and let you sleep with me. We cuddled and went off to bed. I love you so much.

Happy 20 months baby girl.

I love you always.

Mommy