“So big.”
That’s all I keep thinking about with her lately. Kindergarten roundup, preschool graduation, outgrowing the last kid sizes that have a “t” in them… She seems so big. And even more so when compared to her little sister. She has officially become the “big” sister. This week she got her Kindergarten physical. She barely even cried for the shots. When did she get so grown up?
But tonight I looked up at her walking down the hallway at bedtime, pretending to talk on her “real” cell phone and dragging her blankie behind her and I was suddenly struck by how SMALL she is.
She won’t be that way much longer. She is on the cusp of kid-hood. But still, in this moment, she is still a little girl.
She still wants me to snuggle up in bed with her. She still needs my attention more than she is aware of. She is still trying to make sense of this big, crazy world.
Aren’t we all.
So tonight I’m making it a point to snuggle her, to slow down and cherish this fleeting “little girlness”, and rim letting her off the hook when it comes to being a “big kid”. Tonight, she gets to be little.