Nettles update: thirteen months

13 months. 13 things I hope you will keep doing.

1. Playing in the dirt
2. Saying ‘hello’ when I hand you a ‘telephone’
3. Hide and seek with your shirt 
4. Climbing over your siblings
5. Claiming what’s rightfully yours 
6. Cuddling us
7. Rumbling on the bed with the blankets and pillows
8. EATING AND NOT GIVING A $#*%@! 
9. Taking what you want 
10. Giggling, snorting, cackling
11. Enjoying the breeze on your face 
12. Contemplating everything with the seeming wisdom of a 105-year-old woman 
13. Watching the world, wide-eyed