She finally did it. Emily took her first wobbly steps this weekend. I was really starting to believe that maybe, just maybe, our little chatterbox might never learn to walk. I had visions in my head of a five year-old Emily crawling up the school bus steps on her first day of kindergarten. But this momentous first happened for Emily just as everything else has in this short life of hers so far...when she was good and ready for it.
Don't get me wrong, she's not ready for a marathon yet or anything, but she is slowly starting to teeter-totter her way around, four or five steps at a time. Her face lights up, her toothy grin gets wider, and she practically falls over herself the last few steps or so to get wherever she has happened to set her sights on going. Oh my, it's a whole new world for Emily Rose. I hope the world is ready for her.
I've spent the past few months coaxing, begging, and pleading for Emily to walk, and she has stubbornly refused to do so. Now, as she is beginning to really explore this new skill of hers, I see her life flashing before my eyes. Emily getting on the school bus for the first day of school. Bringing home report cards. Bringing home boyfriends. Graduating from high school and then college. Getting married and having children of her own. Is it possible that life really does go by as fast as the last sixteen months have?? I am starting to suspect that the answer is "yes", it really does. Oh, if I could only keep her my precious baby for a little bit longer! I guess I'll just have to sit back and watch her take on the world.
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Way to go Emily! It's so sad to have time fly by like it does :( But it's so much fun to see them reach all of their little milestones as they turn into big girls! It makes me wonder how I will ever cope with not having a "little" baby around someday. They grow up too fast!
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