Kids are so amazing. When people say "they grow up so fast", it's so true. It's not like you notice every day how they're changing. It's gradual for a long time, which lulls you into a sense of continuity, that things will stay the same for a while. Then, without warning, the changes all seem to come at once, and the child is suddenly so different that you're wondering where the previous stage went and when it ended.
Rhiannon has changed so much in the past couple of weeks, it's honestly astounding. A month ago she was just starting to put two words together. Now she's doing it all the time, and sometimes she uses complete sentences. She's talking so much, and she makes me laugh every day with the things she comes up with.
She's also weaning herself - a month ago she was nursing 3x/day consistently, and now she's pretty much done. I started encouraging her to give up a nursing session here and there, and she really gave it up without too much of a fight. She's nursed twice in the last week. This is a kid who I thought would be asking to nurse until she was 5!! LOL I was going to start to wean her by the time she was 2.5, if she hadn't already. But I started to feel like I wanted her to be done, so I helped her give up the morning nursing session while we were in MN, and then worked on the night-time and nap-time ones when we got home. She fought those one time each, and now she's content with our new go-to-sleep routine - where we cuddle and read stories and she drinks milk from her sippy cup.

Anyway, it just seems like she's made so many changes in just a few weeks. She seems to be just growing up - emotionally maturing, not just physically growing - so fast now. I'm so proud of her, and would never wish her to return to the baby phase, but sometimes I miss the baby she used to be. But I feel so truly blessed to bear witness to this process - watching her blossom and become her own self.