Last weekend we had a party for Alivia’s 3rd birthday! I still can’t believe my baby turned 3! It seems like yesterday I was holding an infant in my arms mesmerized by my doe eyed girl looking curiously back at me! I remember her blinking slowly until they became fewer and far between and the next thing I knew she had drifted off to asleep. I didn’t think anything could top those moments of mother daughter bonding as I held her close to my chest and watched her for hours. It was then I realized I was truly happy!
Yet each day she continues to amaze me. And although I try to prepare myself for the milestones, accomplishments, efforts, silliness, passion, curiosity, and everything else she has grown to be in the last 3 years, I realize it’s an impossible and unrealistic task. And I’m okay with that. In fact, I’ve come to love the spontaneity of it all!
