Querida Gabriella:
Today you took your first step. You’re nine months old! Do children walk when they’re nine months old? No. They don’t. That’s what the nanny told me.
“No other child I’ve had has ever walked this quickly.”
Well, you did.
So you walk, but you don’t talk.
“Tete,” you say when you want your bottle.
And I’m sure you say “Mama” although your dad swears it’s “Dada.”
And your eyes. They’ve lost all the blue and are now a most marvelous shade of gray, like a stormy sky over the Pacific Ocean. Big eyes. Expressive eyes. I love to take pictures of you when you’re solemn and the eyes are biggest. Even in black and white, you can see the gray.
Te quiero,
Mamá