Growing Up...

Many of you saw my facebook status a few weeks ago...
"having a mommy moment... daycare wants to move Connor out of the infants room, he's feeding himself, and starting a sippy cup... where did my baby boy go!"

I cannot believe how fast Connor is growing! This picture was taken when he was 7months and I feel like that was ages ago. 


From this picture he's:

• gained two more teeth! (and cutting another!)
• crawled
• crawled upstairs
• pulls himself up on everything!
• moved daycare classrooms to the "walking" classroom
• feeds himself
• learning to drink from a sippy cup
• driven a car

Ok just kidding on the last one, however, it is amazing to watch him grow every single day! He's become a little person! Like many of your comments out there, you can relate to how fast they grow. 


We have friends who are adopting a baby from Ethiopia and in talking with them an interesting statement was made. They shared that they will have to parent different from what would be a "typical" raising of a baby. They said that we in america raise our kids to be independent and what we teach them leads to doing things on their own. They shared when you adopt a baby who has been in a over packed orphanage for the first months or years of their lives, you have to raise them to become dependent and trust in you. 


This was such as interesting point for me and hit on some truth. Every time Connor does something that helps advance him to being more of his own person we praise him. Not uncommon for him to hear "Yeah What a Big Boy!" and "Good Job Connor!" We do this because we want him to repeat a good behavior- and in most cases an independent behavior. 


But then we have our what I call, Mommy moments where we just want them to stay babies forever- dependent on us. Wow! Gives truth to the saying, whoever thought being a parent is easy is nuts!