A 2019 Review

I realize we're basically three weeks into 2020, but I have a lingering need to look back at 2019. There's something to be said for how fast the years go by with, particularly with Mila. She's an odd phenomenon, that child. She simultaneously makes the hours feel soooooo long as she makes the years feel like they pass by in a blink. She's always been here, and yet she's still new. I don't know if it's because of the huge age difference between the girls or what, but time definitely passes by differently with her than it did Alexis.

Case in point, January 2019.

She looks the same. Exactly the same. It's a year ago, and yet THE SAME.

But then there's February.

Wait. STILL THE SAME. By the way, February was when I gave the kid a giant pile of glitter. It made her endlessly happy.

In March she was still endlessly happy, but this time it was because she's so good at amusing herself.

I mean, the kid is clearly miserable. She can't even have fun wearing a sun dress in April.

Honest to goodness, the kid is always happy. Here's May.

In June, Mila performed in her first dance recital. It won't be her last. ::sigh::

She also graduated from preschool. And finally *FINALLY* the kid shows signs of having an emotion other than happy.

It didn't last.

In July, we went to Universal and Mila discovered a new kind of happy.

In August, she made a different sort of fuzzy new friend.

And then this happened.

::sigh::

In September, the kid slept in her own bed for a whole night. It happened once and only once, but she got Jojo out of the experience.

In October, she turned into a dragon.

Then in November she turned into a kid who smiles like a wackadoo.

AND I TAKE IT BACK. WHAT HAPPENED TO MEH BABBBBY?

That's when it happened. December. December is when Mila suddenly started to look all grown up. UGH.