Dear Emeline,
You are my sunshine! You are such a good kid. Really. It is so wonderful to watch you study the world, to see how you’re learning how everything works, or doesn’t work.
As many already know you said «Mama» at 7 months and 11 days. It just melts my heart when you speak. You know, real words! Two days later you said «Papa». And let me tell you this; Your dad is almost impossible to get any sense of when he’s tired. He’s completely in a daze and speaks nonsense, and he’s also grumpy if I wake him up before the alarm clock goes off, but the other day you said «Papa» really early in the morning, and he just rolled over and said: «YES?!» Haha, should have had that on tape.
Yesterday I’m pretty sure you said «Pippi», too, but no one was around to confirm it, and you didn’t want to repeat it. I’m trying to teach you to say «Aurora» or «Rora», but I guess that’s a bit difficult. I also think you say «Hi!» sometimes when we greet you, but then again, I used to joke that you said «hello» at 5 months cause it sounded like that. You do try to wave though 
You’ve now got three teeth and you’re able to really take a bite at us! I sometimes forget that you have teeth, and let you gnaw on my finger, ouch! When I tell you that it hurts you examine my face and I can see you’re really wondering what I’m saying. So cute.
When you were just a few months old I started asking you how tall you were, and replied with: «Thiiiiis taaall!» stretching your arms over your head. You always laughed, but for some reason I hadn’t done it for a month or two, so when I suddenly started again, you thought it was hilarious. And while I was at my parents house a week ago I noticed that you kept stretching your arms up to your forehead with your palms facing away from you. I thought it was a bit strange and asked my mom what she thought it was. You did it a couple more times until I understood, and said: «Oh, you’re soooo tall!» And you smiled your biggest smile and laughed. How adorable isn’t that?
It’s hard to grasp that you one day will be grown up. Hell, it’s even hard to believe that you’ll start kindergarten in a few months. I just want to stay in this moment for a little bit longer. Sometimes while you’re playing with your toys, I just hug you for such a long time that you start complaining. And I let go and just smell your skin, kiss your cheek and watch you play again.
Yes, you are my sunshine. My precious little girl.
Love,
Mama.