TOO FAST TOO FURIOUS

I remember the first month when Emma was home and how much I looked forward to her sleeping through the night and eating solid food and finally being able to feed her without both of us falling asleep.  We've managed two out of three and I am very much ready to stop wishing her to get older now.  She has now rolled over twice on two successive nights since her foray into the land of big girls this past weekend.  She is old enough to have had two rounds of vaccinations.  She's old enough to go to school and to impress her teachers and to smile and talk to us.

I want this ride to stop now.  I can't imagine my little girl getting big.  She was born with amazing hair and now she's getting a bald spot in the back.  Her hairline is starting to look like her Uncle Donald's.  Her fingernails are growing rapidly.

Such a catch 22.  You want your child to grow up and meet milestones and be able to interact and take them to soccer practice.  But you want them to stay little and cute forever.  Not much choice in the matter, regardless, but I am trying to remember every moment I can so that when she's 16 years old and cussing me out, I can think back fondly to her smiling at me when I ask if she's had enough milk.

The nurse who gave Emma her vaccines was again Rosalyn.  We've had her the only two times that Emma's gotten her shots.  Certainly makes me feel that Mom is watching us and has our back while Emma endures these things.  She obviously burst into big crocodile tears and then I started crying too.  David went with us this time and gave her his finger to hold.  I was pitiful.  Emma was a champ and went back to school after her appointment.  Little fussy the rest of the day, but she made it and we are so proud of her!  Dr. Dunk said she is doing perfectly and is happy with her progress.  Her height and weight are in the 5th percentile (which is fine, she's right where she needs to be based on where she was), and her head is in the 15% or something similar.  Either way, she's got a big head and I know she got it from her Daddy.  Can't compliment either of them!

So hopefully the amazing Emma's brain is getting big with all of the new things she's learning.  I look back at pictures when her head fit into her cute little Carolina hat that she came home in.  Comes nowhere close to fitting now and it's so sad.  This is all going way too fast for me, but it's going just as it should.  I love my family!