It amazes me the things that come out of Dotty's mouth. Not only the "big" words that she says (and uses correctly) but the statements that she makes. Some of them are just so true and so profound yet at the same time so simple that I have to stop and be amazed at the wonderful little person God has blessed me with.
Just yesterday we were jumping on the trampoline (it was blowing about 50 mph but we were trying our best). Dotty had been to the doctor to receive a scheduled vaccine shot and she was a little crabby but happy to be jumping. We were doing the usual...jump like a kangaroo, chase me, ring around the roses (it is more fun to do the "we all fall down" on a trampoline than on a hard floor)...and then all of a sudden Dotty stops and looks at me with a dead serious expression.
She said, "Mommy I am getting bigger everyday." Then she burst out in a big grin and exclaimed, "Come on, lets jump!" I seriously almost burst into tears. My baby is no longer a little tiny baby. She IS getting bigger everyday. She grows physically as well as emotionally, intellectually, and in all other sorts of ways that I don't even understand.
One day I am going to turn around and my little girl will be going off to school, then college, then marriage, then...well I just don't even want to think about it. I try every day to cherish all the moments I have with her but I know too often I fail. I get bogged down with laundry, work, life, etc. I recently read in a great book (The Happiness Project...thanks Jeri for getting it for me) the saying "The days are long but the years are short." If you have children you know just how true that phrase is. I have used it as a mantra ever since I read it (especially during the moments when Dotty is being good at being a "Terrible Two") I hope we all realize that we are not promised tomorrow...only today...it is a gift...that is why it is called the present!
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