Is it possible Lily is really 2???

As per the usual, I am late posting about Lily turning 2. I think it is 1 part denial, 1 part disbelief and 2 parts working mommy that has prevented me from updating the blog until now.

So....2...two?....TWO! Wow. Has it really been two years since we first met our precious girl, held her, and fell completely in love with her? I look at the blog postings then and all the amazing discoveries that happened every month and am nostalgic for her infancy...but then she walks up to me and takes my hand to lead me to whatever she wants to do and I realize I am even more in love with the phase she is in now.


She is such a sweet, curious, mischievious little monkey. Her sweetness manifests every time she gives one of her huge, sincere hugs, crawls onto to my lap to watch Curious George or read a book, looks at me with pure joy when I come to pick her up, wants to hold my hand or have one last cuddle before bed. Her curiousness knows no bounds....everything from her "Narcissa moments" (she loooooves to stare at herself in the mirror, trying out different facial expressions or just to say hello) to her desire to get into each and every thing and figure it out to her incredible ability to always find the smallest little object on the floor. The mischieviousness? Well, she is 2, afterall. She loves to get into mischief, especially when it involves running off to explore, always with a smile on her face. And finally her monkey-ness - she is a Curious George obsessed daredevil who will climb anything and everything - utterly fearless.

An old co-worker told me she never mourned the passing of phases with her daughter because each was better than the last. I didn't really believe her as surely that couldn't be possible. She was right - it is.