The Dawn of a New Era

I can't believe that my baby girl is in Kindergarten!! She's grown up so much, just in the last week since starting (although I could do without the smart mouth and pulling her aside in a store to warn her about it). When did my baby grow up? I feel like it were just yesterday that I was crying in the hospital because they were overbooked and my husband couldn't stay because I had to share a room....which meant I was spending New Year's Eve with a baby that I didn't know what to do with and without my husband. What an experience the past 5 and 1/2 years have been....and as much as I wish I could keep her little forever, I look forward to watching her grow into a beautiful, self-sufficient young woman. She taught me more about love than I could have ever learned on my own and no matter how big she is, she'll always be my little "Lissa Bissa," with round, chubby cheeks and belly.