Rainbow
pamelamyers | July 14, 2012
Today Sam saw her first real rainbow! Ever since she saw her first episode of Sid the Science Kid, which happened to be about rainbows, she has been really into them. She talks about rainbows, looks for rainbows, and points out everything that looks like a rainbow whether it is by color or by shape. Tonight I was out running errands and Mark and Sam were outside and the sun came out after the rain stopped and Mark said to her, “You know what happens after it rains and the sun comes out? Sometimes there are rainbows.” And he turned around and there was a huge one right above the houses across the street. Sam was really excited. I just wish I had been there to see it with her. There are so many things we want her to see. Rainbows were on the list, and she was up really late one night recently so she finally saw lightning bugs. We have been dying for her to see those. It is weird — you don’t want your little one to grow up too quickly, but you want so many things to happen all at once that it is almost like you are pushing time by. There are so many things that we want to do with her but we think she is too young. So we want her to get old enough. But we don’t want her to grow up either. Ah, the dilemma!
My little girl is growing up so fast. She talks up a storm now. She says such “mature” things. She has taken to saying, “Are you ok, mommy [or daddy]?” when she thinks we hurt ourselves or when she hears a loud noise from where we are, like if we dropped something. She is so sweet. When I was putting her to bed tonight, we were lying in her bed together as usual, and she reached across and said, “HUG!” (which is what she often does right before hugging you) then looked right at me and said, “We are best friends.” She melted my heart. It is every mom’s dream to hear something like that. Sadly, I know it won’t last, but at least for now, mommy is pretty darn great it her book.
