Since having Madalyn, I know the thrill that comes with watching your child achieve a new skill. The smugness that accompanies reading What To Expect The First Year and realizing most babies aren't doing that by this age.
But I realize this feeling is universal. There is a certain danger, I believe, with placing too high of expectations on a developing, learning, imagining, wandering, giggling little creature.
SO when Madalyn completed Microfish Two and rode her first horse like-she'd-been-doing-it-all-her-life in a single week, I never made any Olympic comparisons, nor did I envision lessons at smelly horse stalls or the echo of an empty university pool.
She is, after all, only two.
2 comments:
Oh, Laura she looks so big up on that horse! Where did time go? I love that little madders...especially after she me told me I had "pretty eyes"! I say go all the way with your emotions. I can see it now: "Madalyn Carney, world-renowned horse jumper." Yup, only a matter of time.
Wow, such perfect form! I think you've got a future medal winner on your hands! :-)
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