10 month Brinley

○ 22.5 lbs
○ 29.75 in
○ Size 3 diapers
○ Barely fits into 12 month. Wearing more 18 and 24 month clothes
○ Singing, clapping, sticks her tongue out, gives high 5, plays with a phone the right way
○ Waves and says bye bye
○ Crawling EVERYWHERE
○ Drops things as a game, hands things back and forth as a game.
○ Says, "Thank you, Dada, Mama, bye bye, love you, yeah, and mmmm"
○ Lights up when she sees Michall


Dear Brinley,

This month it has hit me hard that you're almost not a baby anymore, still my baby, sure. But you're almost a toddler and that makes me excited and breaks my heart all at the same time.

I have no worries about you standing up for yourself as you grow older.  You already are assertive and make a lot of noise if you don't like what's happening to you or around you. It makes me smile inside while simultaneously kills me that you're already so strong willed.

I feel like I haven't had you long enough for it to have been a year and at the same time I feel as though you've always been here. You've always belonged.

It's an interesting feeling- having a child born and knowing that they belong to you- that they always have. That we had to have known one another long before we ever came to Earth.

I live you so so much, my sweet.

Love, Mama