Nothing is faster than the speed of life

 

 

 

He is ten months old and is starting to follow the same steps as his sister. 

"Cruising" around the living room (she was walking by ten months).

 

A mouth full of teefers (same as she had at this age - six pearly whites).

An aversion to anything "baby": no more formula, baby food, and he even hates diapers (she gave up baby milk at ten months and was eating table food a bit earlier than a year as well....excruciating diaper rash put her in cloth diapers but she never hated having her butt covered).

Today, I bought his first gallon of big boy milk. I bypassed the baby department totally then remembered he needed some sippy cups (which he's unsure of).

Now days he crawls at full speed when I go to pick him up.

He wiggles away during diaper changes.

He laughs at things he should laugh at.

He arches his back and screams when he has to get into his car seat or nap time is approaching.

When he is sad he wants his ma-ma.  When he's playing he calls for da-da. 

The speed of babyhood is brutal and will leave you sitting in a rocking chair with a boppy, bottle, paci, bib, sippy cup, blocks, and four different size diapers on your lap questioning where the last 10-12 months exactly went.


Immensely critical is it for a ma-ma and da-da to live in the moment that is the here and now - do not be foolish and try to speed it up - these are indeed the easy days for many of us and what lies ahead is going to be on a higher level of difficulty and heartache (growing pains).  Love these moments before they are thirteen and would rather be banished from the earth than to be seen with their ma-ma.  Love these moments before they are seventeen and testing boundaries harder than ever before while they taunt you with phrases that begin with "when I am 18..."  or  "when I'm outta here...."  Wallow in the hugs and kisses and ideas that - yes their moms and dads are the "end all be all".  These are the moments you will cling to and reminisce of when you see that little girl or little boy start pulling away in the direction all children naturally go as they begin their trek to independence and young adulthood.


xx
Brownie