42 1/2 Inches

The inches keep stacking up. The penciled in lines along the bathroom door frame keep getting higher and higher. My daughter just keeps growing. The planes and angles in her face subtly shifting and changing with each passing month. Her laughter keeps deepening. Her reasons for giggling change. She can do handstand forward rolls and bridge kick-overs. Her mathematic ability and her ability to reason keep growing.
It has been so amazing being here and being her Mama on the sidelines watching her grow and change. Its like watching a speeding train.
I want it to stop. It won't though. She will just keep growing and changing and eating up life. She wakes up every day with a smile on her face and a go get 'em state of mind. I want it all to stop..and yet... And yet I am sitting here waiting breathlessly for the next stage of awesome.
I can't wait to see how this girl will take the life that was given to her and live it. I can not wait to see who she is in 10 years, in 15 years...
She is like a white, hot light that fills you up and makes you believe in Santa and Fairies and mermaids.
She is incandescent.
Look out world, she's coming.
Ready or not, she's coming.