Category: MMM

Maggie,

You are such a treasure and I really am thankful that I try and sit and write something down each month, otherwise I’d forget some of the little things that you do that are hilarious. Like last month you were really into scrunching up your nose and breathing in a really silly way. You seem to have abandoned that ‘trick’ and picked up a few more this month, one being that you love to click your tongue to the top of your mouth. My grandpa Lowman (your great grandpa!!) used to do it all the time and I love that you’re doing something that reminds me of him. You’ve learned a new war-cry, as your Papa calls it, when you tap your open hand to your humming mouth.

You are on the go more this month than ever before. I laugh all the time because I thought you rolling over was a big game changer, I had no idea how busy life would become with you as a walker. You are a curious, curious child: dangling your fingers in flower pots, eating sand, touching Sydney’s food, peeling off wall art, turning pages of anything you can find to read, poking light sockets, poking your friends, playing with my necklace, pulling wires, emptying anything that is full….the list goes on and on. I admire your curiosity and hope that it carries you through life, never losing the desire to learn.

I feel like you had a growth spurt this month because it seems that suddenly your legs go on for miles and miles. Not once in my life have I ever tried on a pair of pants and have them be too short, but I think that with your sprouting legs you’ll get that experience a time or two. You’re wearing mostly 12 month clothes, some 12-18 month that you’ll wear during the summer months too. Size three diapers still seem to fit fine…I’m not entirely sure why I feel the need to document this.

This month we went to Port Townsend and stayed in a cabin for the weekend. It was the first time since we went to Hawaii that you got to dig your hands into the sand ~ you loved it! At one point you found an oyster shell and wanted to sample it. One of the last mini vacations that your dad and I took before you were born was to Port Townsend and so we had a lot of conversation about what it was like to be back to the same town a year later with YOU!! Life is so much better with you here.

Well, Little Firecracker, your brightness continues to shine, shine, shine everywhere you go.

We’re counting down the days until you are a year old!! That is outrageously wonderful!!

Love,

Mama

Happy First Day of Spring!!!! Life has expanded here this past week as we’ve welcomed some of the nicer weather we’ve seen in a long time. Last week was full to the brim of meetings with friends, packages arriving at our doorstep and suitcases getting packed. We headed out of town for the weekend and frolicked on the beach in Port Townsend. Our little getaway could not have come at a better time and we could not have picked a less rainy weekend to go.

Now that we’re back home, with a finicky computer, pile of laundry, and a few hundred photos to look through, all I want to do is just take a moment ~ a quick second to take it all in. Today our baby is 11 months old and I’m just baffled. If I didn’t have a calendar directly in front of me and her soft snores coming from the other room, I’d guess that we just welcomed her into this world a couple days ago.

My baby is growing and sprouting at lightning speed, I hardly know how to keep up with her and all her shenanigans. I barely finish celebrating one of her accomplishments or just taking a deep breath of her hair, before she’s off and doing something else utterly amazing and stupendous.

Parenting isn’t new, but it shocks me daily how much we marvel at our little girl as if we’re the first parents to exist. I wonder how the generations that came before us have kept such a tight lid on this club – raising children. Yeah, it is hard and there are moments of frustration and tears, but it is amazing and worth every moment. Just this weekend I caught Barry gazing at Maggie and the look on his face was so full of love and admiration…..a father to his daughter. Just thinking about it now brings swirls in my tummy and tears to my eyes.