It Goes Fast

I'm all nostalgic lately. Knowing your are leaving a place does that I think. I've been pausing and paying more attention to the Call to Prayer again when I hear it. I am savouring the foods we are eating more. I am taking many mental pictures as I walk away from a place for the last time. We are saying goodbye to friends. But I am happy that we fly in 5 days!

Here is baby girl above at 20 months when we arrived last September....she already had a thing for dates our first week here. She was still pudgy and had lots of "baby" in her.

And now almost a year later at 2.5 years old this morning....



...She's shot up in height, got more hair (a ponytail even!), sings many songs, knows her ABCs, is more fearless, and has a greater love of books and reading. She just isn't a baby anymore. I have been really impressed with how well she has adapted to her new surroundings here. She's had so many friends. And I know she'll do great coming back home.

I know she is not going to remember a great deal, if anything, of this time abroad in the UAE, but hopefully I've taken enough photos so that she'll be able to see her little self halfway across the world at such a young age. I'm hoping it'll give her an extra dose of curiousity and interest in the world, it's people and other cultures. I hope she'll think her parents were adventurous and brave - and years down the road be as brave herself, well, as brave as her Mama can handle.