Dear Mini,

My sweet darling angel.  I can hardly believe you are going to be 22 months old at midnight.  You are so incredibly smart and imaginative.  I love watching you feed your ride-on ponies zucchini and potato chips.  And watching you give your baby dolls bottles, and putting them to bed with the night night song.  You have been blessed with the gift of nuture.

You have officially surpassed my knowledge of all electronics.  You can find and master a new app on the ipad as soon as it is done loading.  You love puzzles and books and princesses and ponies.  Watching you figure out how everything works is truly mind blowing.  I am often taken back by things that you say or ways that you act.  I feel as though you are wise beyond your months.

Lately you just love water.  From baths, showers, the ocean and the pool, you have become my water baby overnight.  I try to take you to the pool all the time to keep practicing your kicking, and swimming lessons are in your near future.  You love to color, even though I hate it, because you decided my tile grout would look better in red crayon and I still have not scrubbed it clean.  You put on your own shoes already.  Your not even 2!  You were hell bent on figuring it out and now you can do it!  Your motivation will get you incredibly far in life.  I am sure of that.

I am beyond grateful that I get to spend all day and night with you.  We are finally getting into a nice, smooth groove and I am loving it.  You make me laugh, make me cry, and are the absolute light of my life.

I don’t know how I ever lived without you.

Xoxo.

Mommy