Big Girl at the Table

We got Lylah a booster seat. She still fits in her high chair seat very well. It is meant to be a booster after it is done being a high chair. But the silly thing has high arms that will not come off so it will not fit under the table as a booster. So the whole concept that we bought into when we got the high chair that would "grow" with her has become unhelpful. So now she is big and she sits at the mostly-stripped table (remember the post where it was getting done as an un-pregnant project) eating dinner like a big kid. Where did my 7 lb 4 oz baby go? She turned into a 29 lb preschooler who comes up with the most hilarious ideas and plans all on her own. She has turned into a song writer and a game maker. She has turned into a running, jumping, squealing, and giggling silly girl who loves going to school with her friends and to the library and the park. She has turned into a helper in the kitchen and a "mother hen" who rubs the backs of her friends at school when they are sad. She has turned into a strong-willed child who tests her limits by the minute, seems oblivious to punishment a lot of the time, and then can be so helpful and obedient the next moment. She has turned into a loving and polite and gentile sweetheart who asks Mommy every day to hold her like a baby and Daddy to snuggle up with her. She has turned into our sweet Lylah Grace whom we have loved from the moment we knew she was coming and cannot imagine a second without.