Happy Birthday Girl...

My daughter just celebrated her 5th birthday 2 days back. Time really flies by so quickly. It seemed just a moment ago that she was just crawling around, learned her first words, started her first steps.

Now, she is reading simple story books all by herself, helping around the house, rocking her baby brothers to sleep, writing simple words, reading some Chinese characters (which I still am unable to), drawing kiddie pictures.

Soon, she will start entering primary school & that would begin the next major phase of her progress & growth as an individual. Along with that growth, she will start to lose some of her naivete & innocennce. And I shall miss her terribly :(.

But one thing is for sure... I have to learn to let he go, and let her grow... I don't know yet how I will do that or how I will cope with that. It is just something that I have to do. I would need to learn to change my role in her life, from protector, provider to one with a stronger guiding component, a teacher, a friend. The journey is probably going to be bumpy and uneasy... but there's no running away from that.