A Revelation

Well, something hit me this morning pretty hard...I realized that my baby is no longer really a baby. While he may be a baby in my heart, he is quickly growing up on me. We dropped Nicholas off at school this morning & then Sean & I headed to the park for a MOPS Registration Day. We got there early and played for a while, just the two of us. As he's wheeeing down the big slides, climbing on ladders, and telling me that you don't just climb through the tubes, you can also climb on them...it hit me that he is offically a little boy now. He had on his Cars jacket and his Cars hat and WHAM! there it was, right in front of me...Sean is trying very hard to be like his big brother, and doing a mighty fine job of it. His facial expressions are becoming more a part of his personality then ever before and the things he says are no longer little boyish but, actual sentences and conversations. He's playing big boy games like pirates and superheros and building castles, instead of trying to destroy Nicholas's castles. He's now attempting the standing up when he goes to the bathroom (that is when we make it in time...sometimes playing gets in the way of going to the bathroom) and prefers to use my feet to stand on instead of his stepstool. It's hard to believe my baby is almost 3 and it just hit me that he is really not a baby anymore. I guess just seeing him play on the big structure at the park, by himself, really made it more real. While there are still those moments where he's still my baby, I know that they will not last much longer. The day he stops using the magic fringy on his blanket and doesn't need every animal he owns tucked around him at night is a day that I don't want to even begin to imagine.