No more a Baby

This rainy season, this Mama looked up, and suddenly realized .... that her Little One, while still somewhat puny, is no longer a baby.
For a while now, she has resisted anyone calling her a baby.
Even when she was still sleeping in the morning, or dozing off at night.
Just the best way to needle this Little One, call her "my baby"....
Even half asleep, you'll usually get an indignant rebuke "I'm not a baby!!!"

Shouldn't be too surprising, now, isn't it? After all, she's been to school for a while now, on her second size of uniform.
She kind of picks up her own accessories (and me thinks that she's doing a better job accessorizing than Mama!)
She's learnt her ABC and numbers and colors and shapes. In fact, ABC is the current favorite song.

Outside school, she can already help Mama shopping, by pushing the small cart!
Although she still likes to ride in the big cart.

She tirelessly follows Mama everyday, walking the dog, rain or shine.
Although, perhaps the prospect of seeing her friends might provide an additional motivation....

She's developed a taste for exotic food, even if she still doesn't have any tolerance for spicy ones.

And of course, she is fantastic at posing for Mama!

Amidst the smart alecky comments she's learnt to make nowadays, the infinite well of energy with which she crashed through the day, it is sometimes hard to believe that she was once just a puny little baby. I guess almost 4 years on, I am finally starting to learn the truth of that parenting adage:
The days are long, but the years are short.

To my not so little girl .... may you make waves in whatever you do...