Feb
14
This is my entry for the 100 word challange hosted by Velvet Verbosity This weeks word is “Overall.”
Title: Bay Grace
She is turning five Friday. Where did the time go? It’s so cliché I know. But it’s true. It feels like yesterday she was my little baby. Stumbling around, ready to trip, and knock her front teeth out. Now she walks, no struts, around the house like a teenager. With an attitude, making European runway models look demure. She’s turning five! She can dress herself, pick out her own clothes, do it by herself. What happened to my little girl, who used to look up at me and say, “Mommy, pease may I bear my faborit pear ub overall today?”
Haha, this is so lovely. I don’t have any sisters, but my youngest brother and his best friend talk like old men.
When I was 5, I apparently told my mum exactly how many chips I wanted, or even how many peas I wanted, and I’d count them before I ate them.
I really enjoyed this. Even if you don’t have children everyone knows a teenager “With an attitude, making European runway models look demure.” Poignant.
Delightful. But hold on… just wait till she’s 15! If you think the time has flown, just wait till she’s 15. If you think she has attitude now, just wait till she’s 15. If she’s doing a good job picking out her own clothes, just wait till she’s 15. If you wonder what happened to your little girl, just wait till she’s 15. And 25. And 35. And… Just wait! As they say, “you ain’t seen nuthin yet.”
Oh Patti, I know, I am freaking out!!!!!
Thank you for the compliments. She is a pistol! She melts my heart, because in the next minute she will take my face in her hands and kiss me softly on the lips and tell me, “Momma, I lub you more dan de universe.”
My baby girls turns 21yo in a couple of months and I can still hear her little kid voice telling me “I dood it mysef!”
This brought back some lovely memories.
That is so funny! Isn’t it amazing how universal some stages are? The mispronouncing of words, doing things “all by my felf!”, when sleeping in our bed turning perpendicular so they can kick us in the head…
So CUTE.
I love to buy my daughters in overall too.
Now they are too big to look that cute anymore.lol
Mine is here
http://justmeshakirack.blogspot.com/2010/02/100-words-on-overall.html
hugs
shakira
Thanks for the compliment! I read your’s yesterday morning, and loved it. I usually don’t write mine until I have had my coffee!
I write mine on Saturday, so I usually post by late afternoon. Look forward to next week!
So tiny, so precious, so full of life they are…
Beautifully said.
THANK YOU! I just loved your 100 word to N8 the Gr8 was it? Amazing writing. The picture made my eyes water.