Jessica...

here is pic of my Darling girl Jess :) She only 10 but everyone thinks she's older & sometimes even I forget!
Part of it is that she's 5' 3" for Heaven's sake!!

Yep, she'll be patting me on the head to say bye before school soon enough!
The other thing is that she 's soooo quick witted & smart that most Grown ups really figure she's older..
I'm really lucky.. she is for all her grown up looks, a very sweet, wonderful girl! She has alway been so easy going ---even as a baby - she only ever cried when she wanted to be fed.. ( & she stilll LOVES her food~lol)

I never went through the tantrums stuff with her as a toddler either.. she really has alway been such a happy girl... in fact her first words were not Mommy or Daddy ..but" HI!!" - You have to have seen the faces on people when this little tiny thing of only 10 months was talking to them in the stores & at the parks... she loved the reaction it got , giggled at it..yep- she quickly learned words get attention & she hasn't stopped talking since ~lol

She still sorta has a cute naive streak tho' that I cherish & will hold onto for as long as the world permits..

I worry sometimes that she is learning things.. about keeping thoughts & words inside to avoid conflict & discord...( hmmm ALOT like Mommy?) even now I see her doing that with things between her Dad & I .
I try to talk with her & draw it out... I don't want her to learn that as a permanent coping mecahnism.. I love her too much to have her be like me in that way..

It's funny--I am sooooo excited about her, & her growing up & us having the sort of friendship , the amazing warm loving realationship that I know Mother's & daughters can have.. Even now it's just neat us getting to go do" Girl things" together.. I really am very blessed & thankful for her :) OK..I 'll stop for now-- I'm getting all Mushy..

I'm gonna go sit with the kids & watch Charlie Brown now!

G'night all!