Ty Ty's birthday

Today is my baby's birthday. I am pretty sure it is taboo to be called a baby at age 3, but those are the rights of a mom for her youngest child. I have seriously been emotional about this approaching birthday. Is it normal to get more depressed over your children's birthdays than your own? For me, birthdays are a fun day. You get presents and get to do fun things. I don't really have that sense of "one year older" for myself. Yet, for my children, I feel the time passing too quickly. I remember so fondly holding them for hours as infants, feeding them their first solids, watching them learn to crawl and walk, reading with them for hours. So many memories that I remember as if it was yesterday. But it's today and Tyli is growing and changing right before my eyes.

Today I snuggled her up in her blanket and held her like a baby. Ok, I admit it, I do this almost every day before her nap. We pretend (at least I do and Ty is good to humor me) that she is still a baby and we snuggle close for a few precious moments. The moment passes and then I have Ty assuring the that "I not a baby! I a big gorl!" Usually I am leaving the room with both of us giggling, but this week I could have broken down in sobs every day.

Tyli and I are definitely too much alike for our own good, sometime this causes us to clash. But lately I just LOVE this little girl. I love her giggle, I love way she talks, I love how she reads to herself for an hour a day, I love dancing with her, I love snuggling with her, I love how she misses me when I am gone and gets really excited to see me when I get home, I love her hugs, I love her passion for Cinderalla, I love her adoration for her "sis-o", I love how she asks where her dad is each day...well, I could probably go on forever. I just really can't imagine my life without this little person in it!

Some of Ty's favorite...
Movie- Cinderella
Princess- Cinderella
Costume- Cinderella (You get the picture!)
Food- kids yogurts (she eats 3 a day)
Book-Princess handbook
Color- Pink
Thing- Lipstick (I bribe her with this every morning so she will let me do her hair.)

I guess it's obvious! This little girl thinks she is a princess, and to us she is! Happy Birthday Shmy!