...as people say they do?
Everyone keeps telling Kelley and I, "watch out, they grow up fast...right before your eyes. And before you know it they'll be asking for the keys to drive the car."
To imagine something so small that actually, "grows up right before your eyes...", doesn't seem possible. For Kelley and I, we see her every day and if we don't step back and look at the snap shot of life, you'd miss it. Well tonight I had that rare moment where that snap shot hit me smack dab in the forehead. As we were giving Jillian her bath tonight I was watching her splash around with her legs kicking and her arms waiving. It might have been the soap in my eye that made me sit back and look at the snap shot right before me. A few short months ago we were giving Jillian baths in the same plastic bath tub but we had a sort of hammock seat for her to sit in. This hammock as you may know is to keep her out of the water so not to get her belly button scab from soaking in the water. Even in this hammock she barely took up any room in it. We were so focused on the scab falling off so we could finally submerse her fully in the water.
This brings me to tonight's bath. SMACK. It hit me. I saw my 3 month old little girl pushing her feet against the other side of the plastic tub. Impossible! It was just yesterday that we had her in the hammock, wasn't it? Now she is hitting all sides of this tub? It can't be.
In a person's life time, 3 months is a blink of an eye. But for a 3 month old child, if you don't stop and look at the snap shots you'll miss the tiny clues that remind you that they don't stay this small for ever.
-Jason
Everyone keeps telling Kelley and I, "watch out, they grow up fast...right before your eyes. And before you know it they'll be asking for the keys to drive the car."
To imagine something so small that actually, "grows up right before your eyes...", doesn't seem possible. For Kelley and I, we see her every day and if we don't step back and look at the snap shot of life, you'd miss it. Well tonight I had that rare moment where that snap shot hit me smack dab in the forehead. As we were giving Jillian her bath tonight I was watching her splash around with her legs kicking and her arms waiving. It might have been the soap in my eye that made me sit back and look at the snap shot right before me. A few short months ago we were giving Jillian baths in the same plastic bath tub but we had a sort of hammock seat for her to sit in. This hammock as you may know is to keep her out of the water so not to get her belly button scab from soaking in the water. Even in this hammock she barely took up any room in it. We were so focused on the scab falling off so we could finally submerse her fully in the water.
This brings me to tonight's bath. SMACK. It hit me. I saw my 3 month old little girl pushing her feet against the other side of the plastic tub. Impossible! It was just yesterday that we had her in the hammock, wasn't it? Now she is hitting all sides of this tub? It can't be.
In a person's life time, 3 months is a blink of an eye. But for a 3 month old child, if you don't stop and look at the snap shots you'll miss the tiny clues that remind you that they don't stay this small for ever.
-Jason
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