Clearly I have reached the stage where she has turned into her beautiful five year old, big girl self who sleeps through the night, brushes her own teeth, dresses herself, helps make lunches and thinks cleaning is "fun". Conveniently my aging, exhausted, "mamabrain" memory has played it's clever little trick of keeping only selective great memories and erasing all, but a small trace, of the "other" reality of new parenthood.
One of the most amazing things about being a parent (aside from always having a legitimate excuse to leave a gathering, dinner, concert, party, play, gym, yoga studio, appointment, meeting and bad date early) is the way your child can keep you constantly smiling and chuckling at their innocent questions and wise observations of the world around them. Which leads me to our priceless moment #98475638291:
Bella: "Mama, do you know what is the difference between a man's and a boy"?
Me: "Ummm, no...what?"
Me: "Ummm, no...what?"
Bella: "Mama, man's like flowers and boy's don't."
"Touche my smart, clearly gifted five year old little girl. Touche;-)", I thought to myself as I stared across the room into the kitchen at my fabulous boyfriend "super kent" holding an extra large flowered mug full of black coffee.
In short: they grow quick...toooo quick, always take the second to look them in the eye when they talk to you, listen to what they have to say even if it's not "convenient", listen with your ears and your heart because they are smarter than you think and they know the difference, and laugh every day....because god knows they definitely do something laugh worthy more than once in a day.
Jess & Bella xo
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