Crack Me UP!

You know what amazes me?  That in two short years my sweet newborn baby who was totally helpless and relied on us for every single need now has full conversations, opinions, and demands.   I'm thinking about the process in general.    That we all start out so small but it takes almost no time for us to be relational and conversational.   Gracie is about to go get her first haircut at 11.  I told her about it yesterday and all night last night she thought it was time to go.   I explained that we'd go after breakfast in the morning.   This morning she woke up and said "we go take Sissy to school and then eat breakfast?"  I said yes to which she replied, "and then we get my haircut!"     We decided a bath would be good in between breakfast and the haircut so after she was done eating she said "i'm ready for a bath now".    I asked her to go get a towel (just the fact that she's old enough at two to know where the towels are and how to go get one amazes me.)   She brought one to me and said "is this one fine?"    She requests specific songs and knows if I sing them wrong.   She knows exactly what she wants for breakfast and exactly what she doesn't want.  I love to watch her stand at the refrigerator and say "hmmmmm"  as she ponders what she's hungry for.   She knows the difference between hot and cold, in and out, open and closed.   She knows her colors, shapes, numbers, & letters.   She knows how to name the members of our family... and that all four people go together - Mommy, Daddy, Sissy, Gracie.   I think about a two week old and remember how small and sweet and literally helpless they are.  Two years isn't that long to a 35 year old like me.   So to think of all that a human learns in those first two years is just shocking.  I can't think of a better word for it.  I wish we kept learning at that pace through life.  We'd all be geniuses by now!