m-d time

i love spending time with beth. love it. wish i could leave all my household responsibilities for the birds and just play with her all dang day. she loves new things, gets ultra excited over them which is profusely contagious, and has this incredibly fun imagination. she also is also super bossy, which doesn't bother me much, knowing that she just gets bossed around all day by people older than her, so why not give her a chance to be in charge... though most of her friends don't have quite the patience with that that i do. she loves to help, to cuddle, to dance, to play outside, and be where the party is. most people think she's 4 because of her height and fairly good vocabulary, and even i have to remind myself sometimes that she's only 2. she handles herself pretty well for a two year old.

last last weekend (as in the weekend before last) she and i had a very rare saturday morning where we played together, just me and her, all morning long. hank was on some crazy overnight driving trip to texas, and poor little hyde who had gotten 5 shots in his little legs the day before just wanted to stay in his crib and sleep all morning. he didn't want out until after noon. beth tends to be an early riser - 6:30am or so - so we had lots of quality time together. she let me take pictures of her that day, as long as i let her take pictures of me (which will not be shared - even though a couple of them were actually in focus). here is my favorite from the day.



this picture is a great snapshot of her - she is spirited and funny and playful, with just a hint of seriousness. and at the same time, in this picture, i can see her holding that same pose on a bed with her girlfriends at a sleep over when she is 16. which freaks me out....  

it was a stellar, atypical morning with some awesome m-d bonding time. (m-d stands for mother-daughter for those of you who aren't on the up and up). i will share more photos of it in my next post. for now, just this teaser...