Growing Up So Fast
Sep. 24th, 2016 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Squiddle has matured so much just over the last couple months. When my mother first got her kitten, he was all "Whey (Rei), wheh ah yu?" and now his enunciation is so much clearer. It helps that he's a little parrot. And during the four days he was with my parents while I was in the hospital having Jazzy, he finally mastered the number seven. Today he did not only his two and four piece puzzles, but the six and eight piece ones as well! Plus, rather than having already been toilet trained and regressing, it seems that watching Wonderful Husband and I change his brother's diapers is inspiring Squiddle toward not wanting to be in them himself - he is now regularly reporting the need for diaper changes.
With Jazzy wearing Squiddle's infant clothes, it's like, "Was Squiddle ever really that small?" and despite photographic evidence, it's hard to believe he was. I don't know if it's true for all parents, but for me, at least, my older child just keeps getting more delightful as he ages. I look forward to the same happening with the younger, though at the same time there's also a bit of sadness, because I will never again have a little baby to cuddle.
(Then I whack this bit of sadness with a mallet, reminding myself that it's (a) probably postpartum depression speaking, (b) there was a point where we thought we were never going to be able to have any children, so (c) shut up and be thankful.)
With Jazzy wearing Squiddle's infant clothes, it's like, "Was Squiddle ever really that small?" and despite photographic evidence, it's hard to believe he was. I don't know if it's true for all parents, but for me, at least, my older child just keeps getting more delightful as he ages. I look forward to the same happening with the younger, though at the same time there's also a bit of sadness, because I will never again have a little baby to cuddle.
(Then I whack this bit of sadness with a mallet, reminding myself that it's (a) probably postpartum depression speaking, (b) there was a point where we thought we were never going to be able to have any children, so (c) shut up and be thankful.)
