I had a rough night last night. Lots of sadness, lots of emotions, just an all around cruddy time. By the time I forced myself to sleep it was 2:00 in the morning and I wound up getting hardly any sleep at all. But everything got brighter around 5:30 this morning when I was awoken by a sweet little voice from the room next to mine.

Miss Ella was awake with a dirty diaper and stirring. I got right up to see what was wrong because she hardly ever wakes up before 7 am. I was greeted with the sweetest, sleepiest smiling baby who was so happy to see me. I got to hold that little munchkin in my arms, take care of her and finally put her back down to bed. We have a turtle that projects starts on the ceiling and you get to choose the stars’ color. So she told me they were to be “geen!” to match her “geen bink!” (green binky for those of you who don’t speak toddler.) She was more than happy to settle back down to sleep.

I went back to bed and was stirred awake about twenty minutes later by Ella crying. When I went to check on her she kept pointing to her eye like something was wrong, but I couldn’t see anything. So I decided to take her into my bed with me. After twenty or thirty minutes of tossing and turning I realized that this wasn’t going to work and back to her crib we went. She settled right down, I went to sleep and woke up in a panic around 9 am when I realized she hadn’t gotten me up yet. When I checked on her she was starting to wake up, so we started our day.

We had a lovely breakfast, got dressed, and played around the house for awhile. We then headed out to a rummage sale that was a total bust, but she was so well behaved! We live near the ocean and were really close, so after the sale I decided to head on over to the boardwalk. I pushed her in her stroller on the boards for a little bit and then we got to play on the beach. We met new friends, ran after some seagulls, played in the waves, buried our toes in the sand and had a lovely time.

And now I’m staring at my baby’s sweet little face covered in chocolate drool from the cookie she just had after lunch and she is *demanding* that I do ‘Cheers’ with her with our cups, so I’m off to oblige…

It was just a really nice day, and such a stark contrast to last night. It’s just amazing how this little person has brought so much to me and has given me so much without her even realizing it. She really is my love and I count every single second with her as a blessing.

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Falling in Love
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Kindergarten Diploma

Photo © Rebecca Hess 2007

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