Was anybody else unprepared for all the changes that happen when your kids switch from babies to toddlers?
I know I can’t be the only one. Charlee and Tillie are out of the baby stage and they are now toddlers.
Things I never thought about turned out to make me real sad.
For example, when I see pictures of them when they were both in diapers and had pacifiers.
No more pacifiers and only one diaper butt nowadays. Charlee starts school in August and I’m not ready.
I used to rock both girls to sleep every single night and not now.
They both sleep in their own big girl beds in their own room and don’t need mom to rock them.
We read some books, say our ABC’s, give love, and off to bed they go.
When you become a mom people constantly warn you about how difficult things are such as the late nights, the crying because they want only you, how you can’t get things done as soon as you want, and many other things.
While all those warnings are true, they don’t warn you about how much you’ll miss those moments.
That’s the warning I wish I would’ve been given.
But I know that no amount of warning could’ve prepared me for the last time I rocked the girls to sleep, or the last time I watched them both suck a pacifier, or play outside in just a diaper on a hot day.
For the past two weeks or so my youngest brother has mentioned how crazy it is that they are little humans.
The first time he mentioned this I laughed at him because they’ve always been little humans. He went on to explain to me about how when they were younger they just didn’t seem like little humans because they didn’t do much.
Now that they carry on full conversations, play pretend, and countless other little human things I guess it blows his mind too.
So I guess what I’m saying in this column is if nobody has warned you about the random things you’ll miss when your babies become toddlers, consider this your warning.
Soak in the memories of them being babies before they become little humans.