So the other day I had to stay at home and keep Kenadie and as you can imagine at some point watching “Frozen” was on the agenda. If you’ve seen the movie you remember that in one of the opening scenes of the movie it depicts the main characters as little girls and shows them at intermittent stages of their childhood until they eventually come of age. It was during this scene while they were singing and getting older little by little that Kenadie looked up at me and said, “When will they be little girls again, Daddy?” I’ve got to be honest. My heart dropped a little bit when I looked at her and said, “They’ll never be little again.”
Why my emotion? Everyday I wake up and look at my little girl and realize that she isn’t so little anymore. Today she turns 4 and yet it seems like just yesterday that she was born. In another year she’ll be starting school, the next thirteen years will move as quickly as ever, and before I know it she’ll be gone, off to college and a life of her own. She’ll never be a little girl again and I’d be lying if I said that didn’t hurt a little.
It’s moments like this that remind me that Kristy and I have to take advantage of every minute we have with her now before those moments are gone forever. The greeting I get every day when I get home from work, every night when she wants to hide before bed, every game she wants to play, every time she stretches her arms up and says “get me,” every tickle fight, and every wet, sloppy kiss I get are future memories that we’re making right now.
In fact, more than ever before I’m coming to understand these words from Psalm 127 – “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them…” (vs. 3-5).
Happy birthday to our little girl who is getting less and less little everyday!
-Andy Brewer