Can You Really Know Someone In 7 Months?

If someone were to tell me they were going to marry someone they had known for only 7 months, I would question how well they knew one another.

There is someone in my life that I have only known for seven months, and I can tell you that I know every single thing there is to know about her.

I know what time she will want to eat, I know how she will cry if I leave the room when she’s hungry, and how she stops if I take her with me. I know how to place the spoon in her mouth just so in order to keep her food in her mouth, how she prefers her rice cereal mixed with her food and not on it’s own. I know that she will not finish her bottle without sitting forward to see what the dog, her siblings or her father are doing. I know that once she is finished eating, she will be ready to sleep.

I know the way her little hands rub up and over her nose when she is tired, I know the gentle touch of her fingers searching for something to grip while she soothes herself, the subtle sucking of her soother while she sleeps, how she will pop it our of her mouth when it has served it’s purpose. I know how her breathing changes as she falls deeper into sleep, the rise and fall of her tiny chest. I know what it’s like to watch her sleep when her breathing is hampered by illness and congestion, to worry that if I sleep she might not wake. I know the sounds she will make when she does wake, and I know the smile she will give when I come to greet her.

I guess you can get to know someone in just 7 months.