i was in the maternity ward experiencing pretty active labor. just before midnight the nicest man ever came in to administer the epidural, and then i slept from midnight until the morning of the 15th when i had my kiddo.
10 years.
it's pretty astounding that someone so cool, so interesting, so amazing and so beautiful came from me in any way whatsoever. and she's definitely a product of her environment -- she looks at imdb.com for fun, she was interested in monty python at a very early age (she still loves john cleese the most) and she made a tom waits puppet a long time ago.
10 years. it's alarming to think how fast this has gone by. it's scary to think that the tough stuff is really only beginning --- middle school, boys, driver's ed, boys, curfews, part-time jobs at crappy fast food joints, boys. but it's going to be so cool at the same time. and i'm so, SO lucky that she is really just the most incredible creature i could ever encounter. for as much as she can push and challenge me, what she makes me feel inside knows no bounds whatsoever.
10 years ago i was so much a child, in biological age and in so many other ways. it was definitely a tough pregnancy -- get pregnant (relatively) young and then you find out who your real friends are, believe me. and doctors are able to scare you with every term in the book (amniotic band, spina bifida, etc).
in hindsight, so glad i had her when i did. i think i've written here before that i'm completely certain she saved my life, and has saved it a million times over. and someday she'll appreciate the fact that she has a mom with tattoos (even though now it may irritate her to no end), a mom who has no problem taking her to concerts (unless it's gwen stefani -- then she's on her own). when she finishes high school i will have just turned 39 years old. i think i'm just fine with that.
when we first brought her home to our campus apartment and gave her the first bath at home, her hair stuck up like the hair on a chimp's head. it was then she was first referred to as "monkey," something that still sticks today.
when she yawned as a newborn, she would stiffen up her whole body and then, at the end of the yawn, she would triumphantly kick out both of her feet. it just destroyed me.
new baby smell.... sigh.
10 years. and i'm a better person for it.
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Beware the golden pig today. It is the Ides of March and that pig means you harm.
Well, I have to thank you, because if you wouldn't have had her, I wouldn't have the coolest step-daughter in the world. She was so pumped this morning! "Finally... it's my 10th birthday!!!" She loves the treasure hunts Stephen makes up, so he started her out last night (would have been much earlier if she would have gotten her way!) and it continued this morning when she found her first present. And it was a doubly (is that a word) good morning, because the tooth fairy had to come last night, for a tooth with a crown nonetheloss. We really didn't think the tooth was ready, but Abbey was wiggling away at it in her room and whatdoyouknow? Other than that, we did her nails last night, and she had had her outfit for today picked out for about two weeks =) She is pretty excited about this ten stuff! Yes, we do have a spectacular girl on our hands; I agree. Michelle
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