WHERE DID OUR BABY GO?
Last weekend we celebrated Emery’s 1st Birthday.
Her FIRST BIRTHDAY….. wow- how did that happen? I promised myself that I
wouldn’t be that mom who constantly tells her children that “it seems like
yesterday Daddy & I were bringing you home for the first time”
buuuuuuut it really does seem like
yesterday! Ok, maybe a few months ago,
but not a year. A year already?! When I
say this out loud to other parents, mainly those who have grown children, their
response to me is “Just wait, it won’t be long ‘til you are throwing her a
sweet 16 party!” Noooo I don’t want to be there already… I want to hold my baby
Emmy Bear forever and keep her tiny- with her tiny feet and tiny hands, her
little voice and all the adorable babble she rattles off. I want the clothes to
stop getting bigger, the hair to stop getting longer, and the pitter patter of little
feet to stop getting louder. Okay-okay,
not really- but if it would slow down a little that would be GREAT! ;0)
No- but seriously, it was a few weeks ago that Em and I were
at a little boys 1st birthday party that I finally realized she really isn’t a
baby anymore. Well, she will always be my “baby”, but this girl was walking
around this party like she owned the place. She had her sippy cup in one hand
and a pink plastic robot arm in the other (that was the theme of the party;
robots) and she was on a mission to see how many people she could get to tell
her how cute she was, and to conquer the step between the sliding glass door and
the patio (which she did in about 2 tries). I watched her walk from the kitchen
out to the patio where the other, bigger girls were playing with chalk, and
thought to myself “where did my baby go?”
A few days later, while Matt and I were out shopping, I
picked up a pack of baby hair ties to attempt for the ba-gillionth time to pull
her ever growing hair out of her eyes. When we got home I took two hair ties
and gave her pigtails. She reached back up to
me looking for her sippy cup, and off she went with her cup in hand & pigtails
bouncing on top of her head. That was it…that was the final straw…. no more
baby- we officially have a real-life little person! She knows what she wants
& where she wants to go, and she knows how to get there!
