tippy toes

Everywhere I go I have strangers stop me and say, "Did you know your little girl walks on her tippy toes?" (I did know this, it's the reason it took her so long to learn to walk because she learned to walk on her toes instead of her whole foot.) But I never know how to respond to strangers. 

This is how not to respond: 

"Duh."

"You think I didn't notice?"

I've thought about this:

"I've never noticed, I'm glad you pointed it out." 

(But that would be lying)

So usually this is my response:

"Can you believe it?"

"Yeah. She is going to have some amazing calf muscles when she grows up."

"I'm pretty sure we'll put her in ballet lessons soon."

"I know! Her grandma even bought her ballet shoes because she loves walking on her tippy toes so much."

So, then I was thinking... I wonder if I have any pictures of her walking on her tippy toes. So I looked back over the last six months of photos, and here are all the photos I was able to find of her exercising those calf muscles.

February:

March:

April:

May:

June:

July:

August:

At night, when I can't sleep, I think about things... and one of the things I've thought about is what Lily will grow up to be. I wonder if she will grow up to be a ballerina. I wonder when I should put her in ballet lessons. I wonder what I can do to develop her talents. 

In any case, I love the little quirks that she has and how I am able to capture and document these memories so that they will never be lost or forgotten.