And Now He’s Walking!

It seems like just yesterday I was stressing out trying to find someone to come over to watch my two-year-old during the time my husband and I would be at the hospital giving birth to our new little man. But now I look at him and he’s already one.

He has a personality all of his own to go with his big stature and every day he learns or does something new.

One day I’m worrying about when he’s going to crawl for the first time and then he gets up on all fours and the next thing I know he’s off chasing after the cat! But still not able to pull himself up all the way to cruise around the furniture. So, I’m still worrying! His brother was a late bloomer in that sense too so I wasn’t too worried, I do grow big kids so it is to be expected. Even more so for this guy!

He’s huge!

By one he was already almost 2.5ft tall, 29” to be exact and weighing in at a whopping 29 lbs 14.6oz!!! It honestly feels like he passed the infant stage in a blink of an eye. He came home at 8lbs 14oz and was able to wear newborn clothes for TWO WEEKS!!! Then, it jumped to 3-6 months for less than three weeks then another jump from 9-12 months, and now he’s in 18-24 months and some 2Ts!!!

And then just like how fast he became a crawler and was off all over the house, he became a cruiser, then in another blink of an eye he took his first step! And then another and another and then by the end of the week he was trying to run with his brother. He couldn’t obviously, but it didn’t stop him from trying!

And just like that, I am now the mother of two, constantly moving, always busy, always into something and always hurting themselves, toddlers!

And I honestly don’t know when it happened!!!! It happened so fast it feels like a blur, but I am with them all day, every day, so it’s not like I missed it, it just happened that quick!

But that’s how it is with kids! One day you have a plus sign on that stick, then you blink and you’re coming home with a newborn you know nothing about what to do, then you blink and he’s a toddler! You blink again and he’s already starting school, having his first girlfriend, driving his first car, going to their first dance, graduating from high school, then they are adults getting married to a woman hopefully you get along with.

It happens so fast that if you are not present, you could be missing out on some very important parts.

So be present, love the small things, enjoy the obnoxious toddler years of tantrums and poopy butts, because one day they won’t need you as much and everything you do now will determine whether or not they keep you around years later.

Be present! Enjoy your babies. They are only babies for a short, short time, and today I realized it for the first time. My one-year-old is feeding himself and he’s running and playing with his brother and entertaining himself, he doesn’t need me to constantly be there holding him.

And it was just yesterday I was stressing out because I needed to find someone to come watch my toddler so I could give birth to my now toddler. And now he’s walking.