My little man

Man. Do you ever just sit down and think 'where has the time gone?' One day you bring home a baby and in the blink of an eye the baby crawls, then walks then suddenly talks. And then they are no longer babies. They are toddlers.



Ty has been changing so much I can't believe the changes in him. He has gone from my shy little man to playing with kids and even holding some adults hands (LUKE!). He would cry as soon as anyone would look at him but now he loves the attention.

And he is learning at least 4 new words a day. And not just using single words. He's using phrases. Like 'need drink' or 'what's this?'. This morning he woke up and I was laying with him on his bed and pointed to the fish on the wall and he said 'Mom, fish's eyes?' Apparently there are a couple of fish that I painted and forgot the eyes. And he only pointed at the ones that didn't have eyes.

Agh. Where did my baby go? And now, he doesn't sleep in a crib. That's right. He has been asking to take his naps on our bed and no longer wants his crib. So, Lexi and I came home from dance last night to find daddy putting together his bed. I instantly got upset and started being completely irrational. Jim starts saying 'well if I had now you were going to get mad about it, I wouldn't have put it together'.

(yeah they totally didn't give us the trundel for the bed! So now we have to go fight them for that!)

Then he turns in time to see me start bawling. WHY! Why would I cry? And all I could think was, this is the last link to Ty as a baby. It's done. No. More. Baby. At least when he slept in his crib, it's like it was when I brought him home.

But he was soooo excited about it. And went right to sleep. He did wake up once when he feel off the bed. But then, right back to sleep. I was so glad when I heard him laughing in his room this morning, and realised that everyone else was still sleeping. I went in there and laid down with him and played. He tickled me. He sang to me. And he asked 'what's this?' about every thing he could see.



So, I guess that I am OK with him growing up. That's why we do the whole parenting thing for, right? It's my selfish way of thinking, wanting him to be my little cuddly baby forever. So, now I have 1 toddler and 1 pre-schooler. *sigh* I won't even start about how I cry every time I think about this being the last year I have Lexi home with me. Then it's school full time. What a cry baby I am.