Sunday, November 9, 2014

Happy and Talking

This week I've noticed that Stassi is laughing A LOT. It's not just laughing once in a while or laughing because someone makes her laugh. She could just see someone do something or someone stare at her and she'll start doing a soft giggle. There's times when she'll start to giggle but it won't look like it because she'll laugh with a straight face.
Other times she starts babbling thinking that we know what she means to say but in reality we don't have a clue most of time when she's making noises. It became really annoying when we started watching a movie in the living room and she would start screaming at my mom as if she was trying to talk to her and my mom would just say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah baby." I really wish I would know what she says honestly and also so she wouldn't just be shouting during a movie.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Growing Up

Today after having a week of seeing nothing new in Stassi. My sister showed me a video that she took of her saying "Mama." I was amazed seeing her say her first word. In the video you'll notice my sister repeating the word mama, and Stassi will be smiling at her and looking around while repeating mama.


She's grown up so much and it feels as if she was just born a couple of weeks ago, and I feel scared about that. I found this poem by Kayla R. Vandiver titled "Life Can Be Hard." This poem explains my fear of why I'm scared that Stassi is growing up.

"Why didn't they tell me how mean the world can be
Why didn't they tell me how it's suppose to work
If only I would have been thinking I wouldn't be grown?If only I would have been thinking I would have known?Life's not easy any way you go."

This line popped out at me while I was reading abecause this week has been hard on me. I've gone through some very hard family problems and it saddens me that when Stassi and my other nieces and nephew grow up, they'll have to go through all these problems that life throws at them too. I remember all the things that I thought I wouldn't do and notice how much I've changed since I was a child. I hope that my nieces and nephew will do better choices than I have. Even though I can't stop nieces and nephew from growing up and keeping them away from everything that life may throw at them. I can only teach them better and guide them through all their problems that they may encounter in the future. 

Vandiver, Kayla R. "Life Can Be Hard." FamilyFriend Poems. Family Friend Poems, n.d. Web. 2        Nov. 2014