One recent day I talked to Lil Bit about things we were doing that day and it just so happened that Aunt Eva was going to be involved. It took a moment to realize that as LB said Eva's name she used a V where an S used to be. I adored the name Aunt Esa and here my baby has grown up enough to now saw Vs? What happened? I felt myself crumble a tad.
There have been other things that she says or does that confirms that she's growing up, mastering skills, developing vocabulary and speech at an alarming rate. I'm rarely one to dumb down word usage for the sake of a child and I try to enunciate things very clearly...I catch her doing these same things as well now.
Even recently, as of the end of the school year (May this year) she started singing the alphabet (I gasped aloud when I heard it). It is something she refused to work on or sing with me...always messing up and making up her own version missing most of the letters. I used to joke that she could tell you if a quantity of something was and even or odd amount (very proficient at this by the way) but she couldn't sing her ABC's...a most backwards thing for a small child. Now she does them both!
I continue to see these skills and I am happy and pleased but saddened that my little girl is growing so quickly, seemingly overnight.
But then, you hear something that makes you realize you have a little time left with your small one...she's still there beneath the big girl facade.
We recently had to use some eye drops for her and this morning she asked, "do I need dry ops for my eyes mom?" and I melted. I had thought she maybe outgrew that habit she had for a very long time where she mixed up syllables/word order...balloon was laboon; eye drops was dry ops; guitar was target....to name a few.
I suppose it's something I want her to outgrow but for now, for just a little while longer, I want to hold on to my wee sweet preschooler that uses s's where v's should go, and dry ops means eye drops.
I guess now might be a good time to just update things from my last big post at the end of 2014. This year so far has been jam packed with exciting and new things. We finished preschool with the greatest of great preschool teachers, Mrs. Reuter. She was amazing and we loved her guidance. It was very cool to see LB develop skills like using scissors, targeted coloring (as in, coloring specifically an object as opposed to just all over the place), drawing pictures (I adore her butterflies), numbers, alphabets, colors, Spanish, turn taking, etc. She's in Summer Camp at the same place (school) and today, Storm, Mrs. Reuter's horse is supposed to make a visit. It is ALL I have heard about this week!
We finished up dance class this past weekend with a recital at the Wildey Theater. It was amazing to see her shine on stage...looking forward to rewatching the video with her. The dance class was fun, beginning in January. She was a year too young to actually be in the class but she got to stay because she listened well and tried hard...and I think it paid off. She thought the younger class of girls were "babies".
This past semester I was teaching at SIUE so she spent two nights a week at home with dad. They usually watched car racing shows and she now says things like, "spinnin' ain't winnin'" and "now that's how you drive". She has high hopes for her own race car one day (egads)!
Since February she has been sleeping in her own bed, occasionally going through a week long phase where she has bad dreams and ends up in our bed. I miss her sleeping next to me...but I know supporting this is a good thing. I'm beyond proud of her.
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