Guess who is peacefully sleeping in her big girl bed tonight-clutching her stuffed horse, four blankies and sucking blissfully on her binkie? How can this be?? How will my heart ever handle all the other milestone to come. Preschool, kindergarten, first lost tooth- on and on. We encourage our children onto the next achievement, as we should, and then ache in the very moment of accomplishment and celebration. It is at these times that our reality changes and becomes a memory. The last time becomes a new first time. So, Ella may sleep in her crib again- she may not. She may not even last all night tonight in her big girl bed. But, as with many of the stages that have come and gone in the last 2 years, I am a bit sad and reflective - it is just going so fast and I do not want to forget-