Amazed

Watching Petal demonstrate new skills and make connections between things is an absolutely enthralling experience. In my still-novice opinion, the most awe-inspiring part of parenting is watching a tiny creature who has little beyond instinct to guide her in the world slowly (and sometimes quickly) make incredible cognitive leaps and bounds and become a reasoning, rational mini-person. Petal is a fairly verbal child, but there is still so much she can't tell us with her toddler vocabulary. So watching her demonstrate how well she understands us, concepts we had no idea she was grasping, it just takes my breath away.