When You Grow Up

When you grow up, oh, how I am going to miss:

• The way you tell people, “This is my baby sista, Ella.”
• How you never meet a stranger.  When we go to the playground, you have talked to every single person before we leave.
• How you love anything to do with drawing and art.  You have such a wonderfully creative imagination.
• Spending time with you drawing while we wait for Ella to wake from her nap.
• The applause and cheers from you when I go pee pee on the potty.
• The way you sing the ABC song when you wash your hands.
• Rubbing your back during naptime, as we both drift off to sleep.
• You crawling into our bed in the morning with a baby doll and your blanket.
• You coming into our room every morning and saying, “I want some orange juice and to watch Sesame Street, please.”
• Listening to you sing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” when you are winding down to go to sleep.
• The way you pat your baby doll on the back and kiss her on the head right before you fall asleep.
• The way you run to the window screaming, “gardage twuck” to see the truck on garbage pick up day.
• How you absolutely love fruit.
• How you ask, “what’s this?” what seems like a hundred times a day.
• The way you follow me around in the grocery store with your baby doll in your miniature grocery cart.
• How you run to the door to great Daddy when he comes home from work.