Big Steps

Dear Mackenzie,

After I finish bathing you, I pick you up out of the tub, wrap your towel around you, dry you off and carry you to your changing table to put on a clean diaper and pajamas. But now that you are a whole two years old, I guess you are too big to be carried. For the past couple of days, after I dry you off, you insist on "wah wah"--you want to hold your towel around you and walk to your room. And so I let you. I walk behind you and all I can see is the back of your hooded towel and your chubby toddler legs scampering toward your room--you look so friggen cute! But it is, of course, bittersweet because you are that much more of a big girl and that much less my baby.

Love,

Mom