Too Fast

I am in shock over how fast Kara is growing. She turned in to a big girl over night! Every day, she does new things that I am amazed by. Lately, she has been noticing that a bunch of letters together make words. Even though she doesn't recognize all of her letters by sight yet, she will point out a word to me and ask, "mommy, what does that say?"

I read to her a lot, so it also shouldn't surprise me when I catch her "reading" her books to her dolls and stuffed animals. I will often walk in on her with her toys set up around her and listen to her telling them a story about the pictures in her books. Some of the stories she has memorized, so she does a pretty good job of re-telling them, but some of the stories she just makes up out of her imagination, and it is just so darn cute!

She also wants to do everything just like me. If I am doing "pat-a-cake" with Jessalyn, Kara gets her dolly or her Lorax stuffed animal and does the same thing. If I have Jessalyn standing in my lap, Kara is doing the same thing with her toys. I have caught her telling her dolly in a sing song voice, "look at you! You're so big!" It really reminds me how much she's watching me and that I need to be a good role model!

I just love my little Kare Bear!