I picked my kids up from the YMCA babysitting today after a brief workout. It's always a mad dash to beat them to the door before they bust through and charge out into the parking lot at full speed. Yes, you'd think after four years I'd finally get this right. Nope, I still can't control my kids. But we had a brief interlude while my son hung on a child-size basketball net. He hung there stretched out. His feet just brushing the ground. And then I saw it.
He looked like a kid.
When you're in the throes of Baby Bunching, time often just passes you by because you're just trying to survive 'two under two.' Babies grow up quicker than they need to because now they're the older sibling.
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Oh man, so so so true.
I thought of this as I absurdly kept saying "let's go back and show baby what you got" after each trip up to a house to get halloween candy with my daughter. The kid is what anyone would call a baby (17 mo) and yet...by the time she was 6 1/2 months and our son was born, whe was no longer "baby" and was not "big girl."
I say it all the time, and now it makes me wonder if ppl are looking at me stupidly going SHE IS a baby...."Ava, you don't need to do that, you're not a baby, you're a big girl!" And yet...17 months? Is not sucha big girl.
Yet...compared to 10 months? Is totally big. And independent seeming. And WOW...where DID that baby of last year go?
It's all over so soon.
Posted by: JessPond | Oct 26, 2008 at 10:13 PM