4 years old!

Morning Pooka Family!!!  Hope this post finds you in good health and spirit!  In exactly 17 days my baby will be 4 yrs old!!!!  Can you believe it?!  That little girl who was in my belly for nine months, in diapers for 2 ½ yrs, and in my bed for 3 yrs (well she’s still in my bed) LOL!  I can’t believe how time has gone by so quickly.  Next year she’ll be in kindergarten!!!  I can’t take it!!!  In honor of her birthday I just want to share some Taiye-isms we’ve enjoyed over her first 3 years and some pix:

• Mommy, I’m being a genius right now (when I asked her what she was doing in my office)
• Mommy, Can I talk to you (in the car after school when one of her friends was mean to her)
• Mommy, I’m having a conversation (when I interrupted her while talking to Auntie Dawn)
• Mommy, This is a little challenging (while she and a playdate were putting together a Dora puzzle)
• Me:  Taiye do you know where babies come from?  Do you know where you came from? Taiye:  Newark, New Jersey
• Me:  (while she is playing with my boobie in the bed watching DocMcStuffins) Taiye, you’re going to be 4 yrs old soon.  You have to stop playing with Mommy’s boobie.  Taiye: Mommy, I’m not 4 today; when I turn 4; I’ll stop.
• Me:  (after her first child only swim lesson) Taiye, you were really great in the swimming pool!  You weren’t scared?  Taiye:  No, Mommy, I’m brave!