It's the little things

Been thinking about milestones and how easily they get away from you. I've never actually written down that on July 4th Nahanni rolled over for the first time. Or that August 4th (her four month birthday) was the first day she sat up alone. September 13th, she did her first little crawl, after our hike in Lynn Canyon. September 19 she had her first taste of rice cereal. I was feeding her tonight, her little teaspoon of cereal and as she was opening her mouth toward it I thought of how quickly it will be that she just...eats. How easily these moments just slip into the depths of the past almost as quickly as they come. I'm trying to hold tight to them, as best I can. I love to get her ready for her bath, her chubby, rolled legs, rotund little belly, her crinkly little bum - the most gorgeous sights I've ever seen. So quickly she'll be big and all those little moments will only be the memories that I make them.
It amazes me how fast she is growing and changing. Already she says 'mum mum mum' with regularity and yesterday she said 'na-na' quite clearly (yes mom, I know you're thrilled with that one!). She's so interesting, how curious she is about everything around her - I love to watch it. Today I participated in a script polish that went from 10 am to 5 pm - I was a little frazzled just trying to wrap my head around how it would go - could she handle so much time away from me? I know she couldn't do it with a nanny, but I felt she had a shot with daddy - and she was a star. It was wonderful too, to come out at lunch time after finishing the first read-thru (with no emergency phone calls) and see my little girl in her daddy's arms, her darling little pink hat with the ears on it, one flopping adorably to the side - and she turned her little head, her increasingly dark brown eyes flashed brightly when she saw me and a huge smile flew onto her face - it made my day. Not seeing her for a few hours made that reunion so sweet - she grabbed me and planted a big wet kiss on my mouth, so hard and passionately that she bit me with her toothless gums. I am irretrievably in love with this child - it is an awesome thing.
No, we're still not sleeping through the night, but...it's coming. Eventually I won't even be able to get her out of bed - that's just how it works.