The Little Things

It's the little things that put a smile on my face. The little things that would be so easy to forget if I didn't write them down, so I'll blog them before I forget.

It continually amazes me how much Alyssa has grown and developed in the last 13 1/2 months. She constantly surprises me with her understanding of what is going on around her. I've been around a lot of children, but having my own is different. I notice the little things she does and I laugh at how she already has a mind of her own.

Earlier this week she sat in her high chair eating lunch. The phone rang but I let the answering machine pick it up. Tim's voice is on the message on our answering machine. When she heard his voice, she stopped eating and started looking for him, "dada, dad". That wasn't the first time she'd done that, but it just struck me as so precious.

Allie loves to play outside. She runs around from her motorized quad to her sandbox to the slide. While I watch her play, I pull weeds from my neglected flower beds. I usually place the weeds on the brick border of the flower bed until I can pick them all up together. While I was pulling weeds today, Alyssa came over, reached into the flower bed and pulled a weed. Then she proceeded to place it on the brick border just like she sees me do. Too cute.

Along with a mind of her own comes a very distinct attitude all her own. She can be a holy terror sometimes and she's isn't even 14 months old yet. Boy, I'm not sure both of us are going to survive the "Terrible Twos" if it's anything like I imagine it will be. :)