Time Flies..

Do you remember when you were a kid and you couldn't wait to grow up?! Couldn't wait to drive, make your own rules, and not have a bed time. Well, there are days now that I wish someone would drive me around, give me rules, and force me to go to bed at 8pm every night (except weekends!). It seems to me that as I get older time goes faster, then I had a kid and time started moving even faster - what's up with that?! My daughter is now 19 months old - she walks, runs, talks, talks back, and she has QUITE the BIG personality for such a little girl. She's growing into this little person!! I mean, as parents we all know this is going to happen, it's the way of life and all that fun stuff.. but let me tell ya - for those of you that may not have children yet, it moves FAST!!!

It honestly feels like just yesterday (okay, maybe just last week) that we were bringing her home from the hospital, to an apartment that had no power for our first 26 hours home with a newborn. It feels like only yesterday that we were celebrating her FIRST BIRTHDAY! It's crazy to think that in only 5 months our baby girl, our little princess, (and as my husband has taken to calling her) our little Judy-Bug will be 2 whole years old!

The day we brought her home! :)

Her very first birthday celebration!

Just last week!! 

How did this happen? How did time get away from me like this!? I ask my best friend all the time "When did we become adults? When did we stop being young and become adults, parents, and responsible people?!" He never really seems to know either, but it seems like we're all just moving SO fast all the time. It feels like life is on fast forward and it's impossible to find the "frame by frame" or "pause" buttons.

For my friends out there who don't have children yet, have children on the way, or are just starting out as new parents - do yourself a favor and remember to take the extra moment to REALLY appreciate them. Just take that extra moment in running around like a mad mommy/daddy trying to get bottles and baby stuff ready to remember what a gift these precious little ones are. When they're sleeping, take the extra moment to just watch them.. to just see them at complete and total peace (it won't last long!) and quiet and restfulness. And even if they're up all night, crying non-stop, can't be satisfied, and have an insatiable need to nurse or poop or just be plain old exhausting - remember, it won't always be that way. Things will change, they will grow, and when (like me) you realize exactly how much time has passed and things have changed you'll wish you'd stopped once in a while "back in the day"!