What a Difference a Year Makes!

As I was looking through pictures, I came across some of the Memorial Day parade last year. I stopped dead in my tracks when I realized how much Kate has grown up in a year.

No more chubby arms. No more short curly hair. No more diaper hanging out of her shorts.

She's tall and trim now. She's had her first hair cut. She wears big girl "unna-ware". And, she tells me she's "a big girl, not a baby".

I miss my baby girl, but I love her to pieces at two and a half.

In my head, I know she's gotta get big, but in my heart I'm begging to keep her little.