Paige is now sitting all by herself! On Mother's Day I went in to her room to get her after her nap and there she was, sitting up by herself! Now, the second command: stay? Yeah, right! She's already doing the army crawl across the floor and it will be no time at all before she is crawling all over the place. I can't believe it! Believe me, I am so happy to see my children growing and reaching wonderful milestones and phases in their lives--it's so exciting and brings so much joy to be here to witness these beautiful moments. But, on the other hand, it's hard to move on and know they will never be that small again and I just try to take in their small hands, chubby cheeks, smooth skin, and their head on my shoulder and burn these images into my memory forever. Author, Anna Quindlin, said it better than me: "The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one most of us make...I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less." (Loud and Clear [2004], 10-11). These are my babies, and I guess no matter how old they get, they always will be. What a wonderful thing to be a mother. I am so blessed.
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These pictures are ADORABLE. She is so sweet. I can't believe she is sitting up already. I don't see you often enough.
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