Getting So Big!

Lately I've been looking at and watching my Elizabeth and seriously wondering when she got so stinkin' big! It seems like only yesterday she came into our lives...and yet now I look at her and she's so big! She has no babyness left in her! She seems more grown up all the time. I called her my baby girl the other day and she told me ever so matter of factly(if you know Elizabeth you'll know the tone) "mom, I am way to big to be your baby! I'm your big girl now!" And in that moment I knew I couldn't argue with her logic(though in my heart she'll always be my baby girl!)...it was tragically true. She's getting so big!! And I know part of it is that's she's "gifted" intellectually, so seeing her reading and writing and thinking things I've never seen a three year old think about, certainly doesn't help me keep my baby image of her. But it's also just that no matter how I deny it and beg beg BEG it not to happen she just keeps getting bigger. The day I took these pictures and videos that reality kept slapping me in the face. It's a bitter sweet thing. I so miss the teeny tiny baby she once was and was hoping to keep longer, but it's amazing and rewarding to see the person she's becoming.














I don't know what it was about her "big girl bike" that made it hit me so hard, but she's just never seemed so big and grown up to me before. I know she's only 3 1/2 and I have oh so many more of these moments to come but this is the strongest one I've had yet and it really hit home to me, to enjoy every moment I have with my kids because they're getting bigger all the time...with or without me. I will never have these moments with her again, they come and just like that they're gone only to be looked back on and remembered...new moments always taking there place.

One week old
Six months old
One year old
18 months oldTwo years old
Two and a half years old
Three years old
My getting bigger everyday three and a half year old!
Here's to the moments I'll never forget...the good the bad and the timeless, and to the many, many more to come.

"I'll love you forever I'll like you for always, forever and ever my baby you'll be"