My Dearest Gabriella Grace

My Dearest Gabriella:  The tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.

Did I conceive a child?  Or, child, my forming did you conceive a mother?

Wow, it wasn't until I edited these newest pictures of my sweet baby girl that I realized how big she is.  Where has the time gone???  I can remember bringing her home from the hospital for her to lay in my arms all night long for her first night in her new home.  I can remember endless, sleepless nights spent rocking her to sleep and singing to her as tears of an unexplainable new love rolled down my face as I gazed upon hers.  My dearest Gabriella Grace.  I remember when she first smiled!  I felt like I was on top of the world!!!  My baby was a genius! =).  That smile would be the end of myself and the beginning of a personality that would forever impact who I am.  My precious Gabriella Grace.  Have I mentioned how beautiful she is?  Her beauty is paralyzing.  Her deep dark eyes, her gorgeous ringleted hair, those baby cheeks you just want to squeeze and kiss all over, her perfect little button nose and those amazing lips she got from her daddy.  When I look at her, its as if I am seeing real beauty for the first time ever.  My beautiful Gabriella Grace.  I remember when she said "momma" for the first time.  Words can't even describe the joy and happiness in my heart.  She knows me!  She knows I'm her momma!  The beginning of a relationship that will forever change me, my thinking, my desires, my goals, my values.  Before I knew it, my baby girl was walking!!  When did this happen??  Where has the time gone.  Can we go back just for a little while??  My baby is growing up.  My growing Gabriella Grace.  Then the day came when she replies to my "I love you baby".... "i lob you momma"... I'm pretty sure we danced at that moment. Never have those three little words impacted my heart as they did coming from that little precious baby girl.  We've played, we've had some time-outs, we've dance (ring around the roses is her fav), we've read stories, we've learned colors, we've cried, we've cuddled, we've played dress-up.  My life rapped up in a 2 year old little girl.  My two year old angel is growing, as I see in these new pictures. She doesn't wear diapers, she doesn't need me to help her to the bathroom, she doesn't need me to feed herself, she doesn't need me to entertain her.  Where has time gone?  She will be three in March and starting pre-school shortly after.  She will be reading on her own soon, and then before you know it asking for a cell phone and bring home boys.  She will be embarrassed by me... oh how i dread the day.  I know that she will always need her momma tho, because I still need mine.  My baby girl has been the bread to my butter, the light to my dark, the soy sauce to my sushi (had to throw that in there), she is my everything.  I have been so blessed to watch her grow this far... I miss her being a little baby, but the joy of her growing up and learning and becoming her own surpasses that.  Thank you Lord for my precious Gabriella Grace.