She's growing up too fast!

Every time I see her I can hardly wait to get my hands on her and go in for a big tight hug, the kind of hug that is really felt. Then I want to step back and just admire her and listen to her talk, listen to all the new words she says and the way in which she uses them in her sentences. I want to just study her face, for every day it is changing. I want to see her every expression and I want to hear her every story.

"it's just like the same"

"I went to Chucky Cheese and there were real chucky cheeses there (as she giggles) and I hugged them, you can't kiss a chucky cheese, you only can hug them"

As she sat in the wooden rocking chair today rocking back and forth she said.."I'm a Grandma"

"Can I help you cook, My Nana 'cause you said I was the bestest cooker?"

I love to watch her with her puppy, pointing her little finger at her and telling her what she can and cannot do. I'm thinking she will be the leader of that pack!!

She tells me she loves me a million times and it makes me smile and my heart grows full and happy... the only thing better would be a million + 1 with a Kiss.

I love the way her hair falls in her face then to watch her push it away all the while not wanting to put in a hair bow.

Sometimes she looks at me a certain way and I see parts of my Travis looking back at me. In what she does, things she says, a certain tilt of her head, in her mannerisms...especially in her eyes, I see my Travis.
I think that is the coolest thing about being a grandparent. You had this child that you seriously adore who has now had a child of his own that possesses his mannerisms, has his eyes but also carries all the things that make her...her. So in this one child you get a double version of that love and adoration that you never thought could be duplicated.

Many people would agree that Travis has not always taken the right road and has made some bad decisions but....Hunter is NOT one of them. She is nothing short of a Blessing to Travis and to us all. I think there is a lesson here...don't ever count yourself out...at the end of every wrong road and bad decision could await a "Hunter"!!

My wish tonight is that time will slow down just a little so I can soak in all the little things I love and enjoy about her right now. She's definitely growing up too fast!

I Love you, My Baby...more than yesterday but less than tomorrow!