My free spirit

Dancing to the beat of her own drum

at Angelo's.

Jillian is my free spirited child, vivacious, lively with no reservations. Her smile is as contagious as her strong will, she will attempt to try anything and usually succeeds at everything. Her spirit is sometimes challenging for Mommy and Daddy, discipline is very difficult. We don't have a time out spot, we have a time out area, trying to make her stay in one spot for two minutes was wearing me out, LOL. :)

I try to have "special" days for my girls. This entitles one special girl going out with Mommy to have a restaurant meal, movie, park or just about anything to her liking. This month Jennifer had a birthday party so that gave me open opportunity to give Jill her special day while her big sister was already occupied.

We dropped Jennifer off at Adventures on Wonderland(indoor jungle gym, little tyke area and birthday rooms), Jillian and I headed next door to start our day. We went to Angelo's (an Italian eatery), we ordered many tasty pasta treats cannoli's and our favourite lemon drink. While sitting down there was a gentleman playing a keyboard and sax, I could see Jillian smiles ear to ear and her feet tapping to the beat. I instinctively knew what was coming, before long she slid from her seat got up on the floor and started to dance. This spirited soul clapped, sang, twirled and shouted more(can't wait until university, LOL!!!). Before long she captured a very large audience that commanded an encore after every song.

I watched my youngest without being self conscious, no care in the world, didn't matter if she didn't have the right moves or looked silly. I sat there wanting to get up grab her tiny little hand and join her, I didn't. When did we as adults stop dancing, feeling uninhibited to twirl, feel the music in our hearts?

I did snap photos to remind Mommy and Jillian someday that we must never forget to follow our instincts and our free spirit, what if I had got up and grabbed her little hand and danced?

I don't really think it would have mattered to too many people, I think it was me holding myself back, too self conscious

I love my Jillian's free spirit.

Next we went to Adventures and Jillian played in the Little tykes area, her sense of adventure made me smile, laugh and at times a little nervous. Her contagious personality was a little magnet to the other kids and soon she had many little ones following and joining her in play. I was able to sit back and admire her many attributes, I am so proud of my youngest and overjoyed I am her Mommy.