time warp

Everyone I know who has a baby or has ever had a baby tells me the same thing: "Time goes by soooo fast! It feels like just yesterday when they were born!"

While I think I'm the only person on the planet to say this, I couldn't disagree more. It does not feel like yesterday when Braden came into my life. On the contrary, life without him feels like a far-off, distant memory. It feels like years ago when I was screaming in labor with Braden. It feels like it's been so long since I was pregnant that surely dinosaurs were roaming the earth then. And it feels like I must have been in a completely different galaxy when I was living the carefree, perfectly selfish, baby-free life...

I think it's because the days never end when you have a newborn. Time just drags on and on, the days are without a real end or beginning. It's not until your baby can start doing a little something for himself- playing, rolling, crawling, eating something other than your boob, for example- that time starts to pick back up.

But now, time has really picked back up! I absolutely can NOT believe I just celebrated my baby's 6-month birthday. And the week before he turned a half-year, he tackled a major accomplishment- crawling!

Now I'm watching this little kid crawl around the house, getting into everything he is not supposed to, and I'm thinking to myself, "How did he get so big so quick?" It's as if yesterday he was a newborn baby, and today, he woke up a toddler.

This having-a-baby thing is just wild.

We celebrated Braden's 6-month birthday
in big-boy style...

...At a park where we took a walk
in the woods, played in a sandbox,
swung on swings, & slid down slides.

Mom buried my feet!

Swinging with my daddy

Mom & I had fun on the slides

Look at what a big boy I am
in my own swing!

Needless to say, this day made me feel like the proud owner of a very big, very grown-up, and wonderfully fun, boy. Here's to another amazing 6 months!