HELP!

My child is growing up right before my eyes and I can't stop it! Madelynn is just blooming into such a wonderful little girl.. and I have a love/hate relationship with it! Here lately every day she says and does stuff and I just think to myself... WHERE DID MY BABY GO?!?! She talks nonstop. She tells what she wants and doesn't want. What she likes and doesn't like. She tell me everything thats important to her. She has all sorts of emotions. Happy, sad, scared, confused. Its like she's becoming less innocent (for lack of a better word) and more "in the know" about life and how it works. That make sense? Just the other day we were at Lowes and she needed to go potty and she very kindly told me she was gonna go potty all by herself and asked me to leave the stall! (WAAAHHH!!!!!) Little things like that happening left and right here lately. Today, she walked outside and went to play on the swingset and she was just a swingin away all by herself. She doesn't need me so much anymore. I'm having a hard time coming to terms that she'll be 3 in two and a half months! Seriously... AGHH! I don't think I can handle her being 3.

My sweet little baby girl.