Bye bye, mommy

The week that was...what a week! Catalina and I were home alone for the week. With daddy away across oceans and sees, we planned parties over parties. Catalina knows how to have a good time, I can tell you this. There is no getting bored or not knowing what to do. Never a lack of innovative ideas with her.
She discovered dolls can be fun if you have a bunch of laptop cleaning cloths as blankets, or of you can dress the doll with mommy's socks. Fashion has no limits!

Talking about fashion, somebody might have a shoe obsession...Are these enough for you sweetheart? Yes, this is daddy's girl. And daddy's shoes too :)

We also played a game Catalina loves. It's called "the invisible girl". Catalina puts on her sunglasses, then mommy starts calling "Catalina, where are you, mommy can't see you". It works! Every time she believes she's invisible. She giggles, but she never lets me wait too long before she takes them off. I think she knows how scared I would be to actually not see her.

Rest assure, our time together was not just party, party, party. Let's not forget how geeky my precious little papadia is! After reading many many books (but never enough for her), we are ready to do our homework.

Catalina has a little pink purse that nana Petronela gave her. There was once a cute little cat in the purse, but Catalina needed space for her gadgets, so the kitty had to go. Tonight she was stuffing her purse with a little pink camera and mommy's phone

then, all of the sudden, she waves bye bye and says: bye bye mommy. And she just flees the room with the purse hanging on her shoulder. It was a little game and she was funny, but I almost got tears in my eyes. How will I ever be ready for her to say bye bye? I am not ready for her to go to college, and what is worse, I am sure I will never be. I know I still have some years till then, but at the speed time flies, I might wake up tomorrow morning with her wearing high hills and lipstick (ok, this last one she occasionally wears even now :).
How will I ever be ready to let go of these beautiful eyes?

I don't think it's humanly possible, so I just look at her, smell her, hold her, kiss her, hoping that I will gather enough of her in me, to keep my heart warm for when she'll be all grown.