In Five Years Time
My beautiful baby girl, who is now my big girl, turned five yesterday. This is for her: My darling daughter, you are so filled with love and light. You still look so much like your daddy but you are mommy's girl in so many ways. You are a deep thinker, and you frequently fret about the fact that you don't want to get old and sick and die. Daddy shakes his head in bafflement but that is your momma's heart beating inside of you. I'm sorry - that part of me makes things hard and very heavy to contemplate sometimes. Your fourth year was filled with milestones and growth. You still get terrible growing pains in the night after days of hard play. You are quiet and sometimes shy, but I see that shyness fading away and, in your own quiet way, I see leadership developing in you. You still love my little ponies and I watch your friends, both at home and at school, take pains to play them with you in one way or another. You are kind, you are, as my mother would say, &