I know that every first-time parent thinks that every new thing their child does is the most amazing thing they've ever witnessed and they think their child is the smartest. Well, in their eyes that really is true to them. I know I'm biased because Grace is my daughter but, I am continuously impressed with how quickly she grasps onto the concept of things, her problem solving skills and how many words she has been attempting to say already. At 11 months she was trying to put her shoes on that she wore all day the previous day and I was just amazed. Also before she turned a year she had been watching me brush my hair and picked up her brush and tried doing the same.
I took out her Fisher Price gum ball machine when she was about 9 months old, which is basically where they take a ball, put it in the top and then press a lever to release it out the bottom. She watched me do that only a handful of times and started doing it herself and it was the most incredible thing I had ever seen. I must sound crazy. I know that every parent can relate to this moment though, so that makes me feel less preposterous.
It's definitely a type of love I've never experienced before. The kind where you would literally do anything for that person. Kind of a juvenile example, but, I'm scared to death of bees, but when there's one slightly near Grace, I don't even hesitate to get that bee away from her.
She's made me a better person in every possible way. No one in this world has been able to motivate me in the way that she has or give me the level of faith that I now have. Her name has such an intense amount of irony to it. "It is understood by Christians to be a spontaneous gift from God to man - "generous, free and totally unexpected and undeserved" - that takes the form of divine favor, love and clemency." -The definition of Grace.
