This has been sitting as a draft for a while now because I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say or why I'm trying to say it. oh well, here it goes.
I have figured out that Evette and I are pretty much the same person. I'll have to apologize to her frequently for that later on down the road.
At my parents house this last weekend [more on that later] we were looking through some old photo albums and it turns out that we look so similar. She has her daddy's smile but her eyes, nose, everything else was like a copy and paste from me. Crazy.
She's also super independent but social at the same time. She likes to people watch whenever we go anywhere and she loves the attention from everyone. She's a party animal and a people pleaser. But sometimes she needs her own alone time. Sometimes she likes to go down for her nap or bedtime anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour early just so she can lay in bed, sing songs and read her books. I'm serious.
She also has started to cuddle with me. But only on her terms and only if she wants to.
She likes to play on her own as well, but I must be in the same room. She will happily play with her books, stuffed animals, etc for 30 minutes on her own if I sit in the room reading my book. The second I try to leave to do the dishes or something she has a fit.
In every little thing she does I see pieces of myself in it.
Turns out I'm just like my mom, too. She has apologized for that as well :) I used to hear my mom say, "I just open my mouth and my mother falls out.....Someday that might happen to you, Heidi!" What a weird thing to say.....
I didn't believe her. But, one day I was talking to a friend and I said, "I just open my mouth and my mother falls out." Seriously? Did I just say that? That weird old phrase that my mom says? Yes. My mother just fell out of my mouth.
Luckily I got a lot of the good things from my mom and a few quirky things as well. :)
I just look at her and it's like looking in a mirror. It terrifies me. Am I who I want my daughter to be? No. But I'm working on it.
At my parents house this last weekend [more on that later] we were looking through some old photo albums and it turns out that we look so similar. She has her daddy's smile but her eyes, nose, everything else was like a copy and paste from me. Crazy.
She's also super independent but social at the same time. She likes to people watch whenever we go anywhere and she loves the attention from everyone. She's a party animal and a people pleaser. But sometimes she needs her own alone time. Sometimes she likes to go down for her nap or bedtime anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour early just so she can lay in bed, sing songs and read her books. I'm serious.
She also has started to cuddle with me. But only on her terms and only if she wants to.
She likes to play on her own as well, but I must be in the same room. She will happily play with her books, stuffed animals, etc for 30 minutes on her own if I sit in the room reading my book. The second I try to leave to do the dishes or something she has a fit.
In every little thing she does I see pieces of myself in it.
Turns out I'm just like my mom, too. She has apologized for that as well :) I used to hear my mom say, "I just open my mouth and my mother falls out.....Someday that might happen to you, Heidi!" What a weird thing to say.....
I didn't believe her. But, one day I was talking to a friend and I said, "I just open my mouth and my mother falls out." Seriously? Did I just say that? That weird old phrase that my mom says? Yes. My mother just fell out of my mouth.
Luckily I got a lot of the good things from my mom and a few quirky things as well. :)
I just look at her and it's like looking in a mirror. It terrifies me. Am I who I want my daughter to be? No. But I'm working on it.
Don't apologize too much, although you may have flaws (as everyone does) you are loved by many! And she will be, too.
ReplyDeleteP.S. The mother comment-haha too true!
Ergo Evette = Norma
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