In the past month, Lily's memory has blown me away! My brother Travis came up during the middle of January to go to an ISU basketball game with Justin. So you can imagine my surprise when this conversation played out around the middle of February when I went into Lily's room one morning:
Me - Lily, do you remember who's coming to visit today?
Lily - GaGa! (Grandma)
Me - You're right, Lily.
Lily - And Trav?.....No, he at basketball with Daddy.
Whuuuut? Her brain is capable of that at this age?! So apparently the last connection she'd made of thinking about Uncle Travis was of his coming up in January and she voiced it a month later.
Another time her memory caught me off guard was one afternoon as we were getting in the car, she pointed to my "Prayer Warrior in Eli's Army" bracelet and asked - "Mommy sad?". She had remembered that earlier in that week when I found out that Eli had died, I was crying and had talked about the bracelet.
She said the closest thing to a real first sentence a couple of weeks ago: While pointing behind the couch - "Jax's bone back there."
She can now count to 10.
She can sing the alphabet although certain groups of letters are strung together. :)
She can point out a few colors: yellow, green, orange, black and white.
Well, these are just the bigger things that come to mind but she is doing so many new, funny and super cute things that I feel terribly inadequate in my ability to write them all down. I want to savor it all! Because this thing called 'time' keeps speeding up, by golly. Does anyone else have a hard time believing that my baby girl is going to be 2 next week? Bam. You blink your eyes and they're all grown up. Kinda puts it all in perspective for me....some minutes, hours, days might be long but the years sure are short.
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