My Big Boy

My sweet little baby boy has changed into a big boy. Lucky for me, he still always wants his Mommy, which I REALLY enjoy :) We went to White Fence Farm for dinner tonight and just watching him run around and play made me see how much he has grown up, of course his behavior while trying to eat dinner showed me how he is still my little guy....It is funny how I will do ANYTHING I possibly can to make him happy while we eat dinner, I will let him make a mess {of me, him, the table, whatever} he can eat what he wants, he can drink my tea, I will even let him drink Daddy's soda..... but it doesn't matter, no matter how patient I am, there seems to be no way to get my little man to sit down to dinner at a restaurant.{and tonight I sure received a lot of "glares" but I was fast to shrug them off} It's okay though, if I choose to go out to eat I know what I am in for, which is why I come with patience and the ability to eat very quickly. My husband is always in shock how fast I eat my meals, if he was used to eating all his meals with a 17 month old {YES, my son is 17 months old today!!} I think he would start eating faster too. I was happy to be at White Fence Farm, since not only do they have great fried chicken {I ate way too much food} they also have a petting zoo, I think I love petting the animals just as much as my son does{although after eating fried chicken I felt a little guilty around the chickens,I gave them lots of the nasty pet food you buy for a quarter as my way of apologizing} So even though our "eating" portion of the night may have had its stressful moments, before and after dinner was all about family fun! My big boy even decided to venture to other family members more than he ever has, this made me so proud, he is growing up! And hearing him MOO at the cow made reading him his zoo book a thousand times so worth it. It is just amazing to me how fast kids grow when they are young, they are rolling, crawling, walking, and then talking all within a year and a half. I wish I could accomplish that much in that time period :) I guess I could... I could learn a new language, start tumbling, and learn to walk on stilts..... but with work,Mommy,and Wife duties I just don't have the time. Or maybe babies are just much more motivated than I am. I can't wait to see what giant leaps my son will be taking in the months to come, I can't believe how fast time goes when you have children, I guess it has always gone by this fast but I never realized it. I just went to work everyday,and waited for the weekends and vacations. Now that I have my amazing little guy my time means so much more and I want it to last forever so I see it flying by. I want to be the best Mom and give my son the world {is there a book on that?} I will do my best everyday to be super mom, but I know I will falter, I will get upset over spilled milk, I will get mad when he pours out my expensive blush, but then I will see that he is all that matters, and I will feel silly for wasting my energy on those pointless frustrations. I guess in time I will learn to be all that I can be, well in the Mom department anyway. The rest of my life.... well I can figure that out later, right?

Kelly Callahan