My Inexplicable and Unpredictable Daughter

D will turn 6 in a couple of weeks. She is like nothing I could have ever predicted when I imagined having a baby girl.

Things that make me wonder how in the world this little old-soul thinks the way she does:

a) She is wise beyond her age (yesterday she said to me, "I think if Ani and I were not around, mamma, you would have been crying all the time after your Appa and Mummy died". I could only blink at her)
b) She is super-observant (she told RK, "how come when you fake-laugh, you look down a bit?")
c) She remembers everything about everything (I have resorted to showing her any jewelry or silver or previous stuff in the house and where I keep them, because honestly, I don't remember this stuff but she not only does, she will also recall who gifted what to whom and when)
d) She is crazy, crazy, crazy about makeup and clothes and fashion. Recently she pulled out some cucumbers from the fridge, cut out big pieces, lay down on the bed with the cucumber pieces on her eyes since she saw someone getting a spa on TV. She loves painting her nails and lips, she is a menace with the eye liner and getting her to stop putting powder on is an hour-long ordeal. Ani is the only one who can get her to stop by telling her she looks like a clownish raccoon, whereupon she will first sob and then go scrub her face out (with anti-acne scrubbing soap only)
e) What she wants for her birthday: a cycle (expected), and an animal farm where she can take care of cows, cats, dogs and elephants (huh!)

How in the world did I, a fashion unconscious, not-particularly-perceptive, half-blind (literally and figuratively), utter nerd end up with a little girl like her?

She makes me question my worldview a thousand times. She makes me laugh even while she maddens me with her incessant questions, her story-telling, her insistence on being stylish and her whininess when she doesn't get her way.

She truly is a mystery. I hope, wherever my parents are, they keep a good eye out for her. I need her to be happy, healthy and utterly unpredictable always.