Walkin' on sunshine

Major announcement, Elliot is on the move! As you know he’s been almost walking for quite a while now but just a few days ago he finally took off. Now he’s walking, running, wobbling, teetering, and falling all over the place. This major breakthrough was just a couple of days after we moved to our new apartment which is more spacious (where he has his own room!) and I wonder if the impetus came from the new sense of space and freedom.

With the big one year birthday coming up I can’t help but reflect on where I was one year ago, at this point I would have been several days overdo, supremely anxious, and desperately trying to avoid inquisitive questions and anticipatory remarks. Every time I see a pregnant woman on the street I think ‘oh, honey, you’ll make it’ and send her telepathic words of encouragement and support. I’d say it’s been a pretty incredible year. I had a baby, I changed careers and started school, and I moved to a new place.  I couldn’t be more grateful to the world for its’ bountiful generosity and I appreciate every crazy sleepless stressful exhausting minute of it!

Elliot is growing so fast, it’s true what they say about time’s fleeting nature, it is relentless and unforgiving in it’s tenacity to move forward and leave us all behind. We watched some videos of him at a few weeks old, a few months, and even felt nostalgic for the ones taken just a few weeks ago because I can already see that he has grown and changed since then. It is a sad and beautiful and remarkable thing to watch a child grow.