Carson Meyer Instagram – Approaching 18 months with the sweetest fairy. We’ll really its 27 months because I count every day of pregnancy as Motherhood and could feel her essence within me from the beginning.
When I ask her If she remembers being in my belly she says “YES!” and nods effusively and I have no doubt she’s right. I know that she was experiencing in the womb and that her birth will forever be apart of her emotional blueprint.
We often underestimate the intelligence of children. Their brilliant ability to recall the past, create from their imagination all while living so truthfully in the present moment. Leaning on all of their senses to make sense of the world.
Every morning I wake to a kiss. She then request we visit the “ribbit” living in the gutter and the garden where she can identify more plants than I can, “shishito” “yarrow” , “mushroom” “rosemary” “Apple tree”. As she bends down to smell the lavender she looks at me and says “baby”. The smell of lavender reminders her of lavender infused babydoll her grandma gave her. She can’t wait to walk into the house to tell her dad “I saw the ribbit. And it did a jump.” Before we can respond, she does so for us “WOW”. Which was her very first word. For days she’s been telling us about the mama dove that she saw sitting in the nest “it flew away and came back”. When I was pregnant with her in the spring time I too was fixated on the mama dove in my garden.
Pregnancy, motherhood gives you the gift of seeing the world through fresh eyes , of slowing down and noticing the profound yet simple wonders of living.
Photo by @krowkaphotography | Posted on 08/May/2024 22:28:57
