Comments on: Stretch

By: louise

louise — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:16:50 +0000

What a beautiful post! Congrats on getting to the little girl stage.
Love
Louise

By: BusyDad

BusyDad — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:45:48 +0000

It’s debatable whether or not *I* can even form a coherent sentence and wipe my own ass. Rock on for her!

By: Shanna

Shanna — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:40:06 +0000

We just went through this last month with my 3 year old. In December we had 2 weeks of pure hell which was on the heels of an Autism discussion with the pediatrician so we were even more concerned. Our son had regressed so much in the span of 2 weeks that we nearly called to make a ‘sick’ visit with the dr. Needless to say, like you, he woke up one day with a crystal clear vocabulary and helping out with chores and doing things I ask, dressing himself and opening his car door and climbing into his car seat by himself. He literally grew up overnight, and thoughts of Autism are a distant memory – he’s as normal as they get. Scary stuff!!!

By: mrsfinn

mrsfinn — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:03:59 +0000

I’ve noticed they tend to do that. The other day, I was going through some pictures with my mother-in-law. My daughter was in some, and I could not BELIEVE how grown up she looked, and some of those pictures were taken a year ago!! It’s almost like I have these blinders on, and I can’t actually SEE her growing up. When I look at her, I still see this tiny baby that needs me to do everything for her. When, in reality, she doesn’t even need me to get up in the mornings with her anymore. Just this week, she’s decided to wake up early, get her own breakfast, and get dressed, all before mom’s alarm clock even goes off to get her up. And she’s not even USING an alarm clock, she just gets up on her own!!! *sigh* Is it wrong of me to want to tie her into bed at night, just so I can keep that small bit of dependence on me??? It’s really not much at all, when I think about it, she was doing these things before, the only difference was thatI had to wake her up, and remind her what she had to do. Oh well…. it was bound to happen eventually, right??

By: Cuz_I'm_The_Mom

Cuz_I'm_The_Mom — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:01:35 +0000

That last paragraph made me go into my daughter’s bedroom and kiss her goodnight again.