Letter to Miss Leyba: Month Four

Dear sweetie,

You are such a happy girl. You spend your days smiling, chatting, and laughing with me. We have so much fun together.

This month you:

• Always have your fingers in your mouth (your hands are perpetually soggy!).
• Greet Daddy with a huge smile when he gets home from work at lunchtime. (Yep, he still works from home every afternoon; you love it! How lucky are we?!)
• Love love love bath time. And now get really upset when bath time is over.
  
• Enjoy trips around the lake at the park out in the stroller.
• Love watching older kids, especially when they crawl or eat.
• Smile at strangers–especially ladies–and then shyly burrow your head into Mama or Dad (whoever is carrying you).
• Find the concept of Mama using the potty, brushing her teeth, and putting in her contacts truly fascinating (and frequently funny).
• Wear mostly 9 and 12 month sized clothes and already weigh more than your mama did when she was one year old. We are so glad you are so healthy (and haven’t gotten sick yet!).
  
• Roll over from your back to your tummy at every opportunity. Even when you’re exhausted and don’t really want to be there.
• Play with your feet, especially when they are barefoot. Evidently your toes are so delicious.
• Have so many new friends. It’s been a very social month for us.
  
• Talk to us. (We love it!) You talk and talk and talk all day long, but only to us, not to anyone else yet. After a very quiet play date or yoga class or trip to Whole Foods (when you are just absorbing everything around you and completely silent), you then babble nonstop to Daddy and I telling us all about it.
• Really discovered how to giggle. It’s a frequent sound around here nowadays and it warms our hearts.
• Have tried so very hard to crawl.
  
  

Our days together consist of us reading, singing, playing with blocks or books or feet or toys, going for a walk (usually with Daddy), having tummy time, practicing sitting up, kissing and hugging and holding each other tight, napping, smiling, and chatting. We also love to tickle you and make you smile. You’ve just recently discovered the joy of sitting on Daddy’s shoulders. I think if it were up to you, you’d be up there all the time.

We love that in the morning when you wake up, you look over at Daddy and me and smile. We feel so glad that you start your day happy and glad to see us, because we both love you so tremendously and are so happy to be with you. You are our sweet, sweet girl and you’re growing up so fast.

Love, Mama