I have vivid memories of my mom getting a little weepy as I grew older. These moments usually involved her saying something along the lines of my baby is growing up so fast! I always thought she was being silly and a bit melodramatic. When you are a kid, you don’t really feel like you are growing up fast. If anything, you feel as though time is moving extra slow. You cannot wait to be a teenager then you cannot wait to get your license and it goes on from there. Well, I now completely get why my mom was so weepy at various points during my childhood.
As a lot of you know, I am still very close with my ex-boyfriend’s brother’s family. I see them every week, and it has been a real eye-opener watching all the kids grow from week to week. It’s kinda funny the way time works. For months, Tade always felt/looked like a little baby. I usually help put him to sleep on the night I am there, so I have a pretty good idea of how he fits in my arms. For the longest time (despite the fact that he was getting bigger), it never really registered how quickly he was growing. Two months ago, as I was putting him to bed, it suddenly hit me just how big he had gotten. It came out of nowhere….and now he is a toddler.
I have taken photographs of Tade every few months since he was born. For the first 9 months, he continued to look like a baby. Then all of a sudden in two months time, he turned into a toddler! It made me realize just how important it is to capture your baby, before they are no longer a baby. Ages 15mos, 2 1/2 years, and 5 years are (in my opinion) some of the most important ages to photograph your children, because you are able to catch them before they move on to the next stage of their growth. I really love photographing babies at 6 months, because they are so smiley and interactive at that age.
What will you miss the most when your little one is big and grown? Those chubby little cheeks, their all-knowing smile (the one they had at age 5), the wrinkly little back, their fantastic chunky baby thighs, the way their wispy hair framed their face, their toothless smile… I would love to hear what you will miss the most, please leave your answers in the comments or you can email directly.
I wanted to bring this up, because I was amazed at how much this hit me. I cannot even imagine how I would feel if it was my little one that was growing up in the blink of an eye. I probably would end up all weepy saying my baby is growing up so fast! And I am fairly certain that my child would sigh, roll their eyes at me and think I was silly, as I did oh so many years ago to my mother.
Have a great holiday weekend!
