It's amazing how time simply evaporates when you have a child. The world around you just slips away. One day melts into another with such little perception. Happy peaceful moments become those where your child is suddenly babbling. Times when your newborn sleeps throughout the day to instances when you can't keep their little limbs still. There is nothing more important than watching her grow, that sometimes it just makes me want time to stand still so that I can adequately absorb everything.

There are moments when I find myself just staring. The little peak of hair that is left as a widow down the front of her forehead. The tiny strands that are starting to change tones along her brow bone that will soon become delicate eyebrows. Those batting lashes that frame her doe-like eyes are butterfly kisses against my nose when I hold her face close to mine. That nose, those lips, that chin, those ears. Every round cheek, every chunky crevice, every quick movement, every tiny noise is a miracle to me. How is it possible that I created this?

Then I realize that there are things we must do, sights she must see, words she must hear for her to grow and learn as a small infant. I could just sit all day with her in my arms, swaying peacefully to our own rhythm, but know she needs that time on her own to grasp and gaze and ponder. It is so hard to set her down, so difficult to not place my cheek to her soft porcelain skin. Will I ever not miss her tiny hands clutching my arm as she buries her face deep within my neck? Most likely not. But the thrill of every new development she makes is worth letting go ever so slightly. Well, maybe not today, but it will take every ounce of my being when that day comes, so my mind wanders and wonders what the next moment will bring us as we move along this beautiful thing called her Life.