Jessica Lu Instagram – Mom, you’re missing everything. Everest is so smart, she’s talking a mile a minute. Last week she just suddenly started singing the song that we’ve been singing to her since she was a baby, she just started singing it in mandarin, and it killed me that you couldn’t hear it. When we got back from Japan, I got her in her own room downstairs finally and she’s sleeping in a full size mattress and she’ll fall out and then get back in and keep sleeping. She’s fully toilet trained. And she holds it all night til the morning even though I put her in a pull-up just in case. But mostly she’s so emotionally aware. When she cries, I ask her why she’s crying and she says she’s grumpy bc she doesn’t want daddy to leave to go to work. When I cry, she asks, are you happy, mommy? And I tell her I’m sad and she nods and says, okay mommy you sad now but later you happy okay? I read a book to her called Goodbye and now she walks around the house saying LaoLao died, LaoLao died, and I just am not ready for her to grow up this quickly because she’s 2 and also it means that time just keeps going. One day I’ll tell someone, oh forgive me, my brain, my mom just died, and they’ll ask me when, and I’ll realize it’s been years, and I’m not okay with that.