40 months old

I don't count her age in months anymore...but I have every month labeled on the calendar and this round number stood out to me...

Where the hell has the time gone?
It feels like yesterday she was swaddled and colicky and I was a nervous new mom.

Now, she's laying in her bed yelling at her imaginary fire trucks to "Stop with the shenanigans and no futzing around!"

...And I'm a slightly less nervous mom.

Her growth and development has been an amazing journey for us as her parents and we watch her experience new things and act in new ways and it blows our mind.

She loves life and loves the safety of her home, much like her mother. Yet, she's smart and sassy like her Father. I see us in her and I giggle. Especially when she has a 'come back' for every-farking-thing I say...just like Dad.

Me: "Baby, stop washing the dishes...times up."
Girl: "No its not, five more minutes and I'll turn the water off."
Me: "I gave you five extra minutes, now time is really up."
Girl: "I'm counting to five and I'll turn the water off then...One Mississippi, Two Mississippi...."

And she gets to play in the water a few more precious seconds...Smart.

Her language is beyond our expectations and her vocabulary is outstanding. Her newest word is "exhausted". She uses it whenever she can:

"That Art must be exhausted from all that playing."
"I'm exhausted from talking on the phone too much."
"Firetruck, stop being exhausted...you better get out of bed!"

I love when she sings "Art is a Schmuck" and I know it may seem inappropriate to most but when she tells me she's 'pissed off' or I have to 'wipe Art's asshole'..it just cracks me up.

I'm trying to get her to use alternate fun words for asshole but she is hooked. Buttcrack, bunghole, crusty crack (her favorite) are some alternatives but she keeps using asshole. I'm a terrible role model. And I think it's funny.

Her teachers are gonna have a field day with us.

She loves to sing and dance and her new moves are to die for:
There's the hiney shake and the head bop. There's the one foot hop and the scissor jump. And the arms up in the air and swinging all over the room are phenomenal. And when the music is over..she poses. Until the next song comes on. Classic.

The 'naked balloon dance' is one only to be admired by her parents and close family but oh so clever and delightful. She can keep that balloon off the floor for an entire song by swatting it with her paw.

I am amazed by her every day and I am ever so grateful that someone out there thought I was lucky enough to be her Mamma.

I love you Girl so very much.
Forever.

Out of all the little girlies in the world, how did I get the very best one?