Before I got pregnant I saw a "Line a Day" five year journal at a gift shop and I bought it, determined to chronicle every day of my child's life for 5 years.
Sometimes I have up to 4 days of catch up to do. But generally I follow through and try to write a little story every day, something new he is doing. I was hoping to somehow capture the baby steps of development, all the "firsts." It shouldn't be too hard, right? Every day, write something new.
Except it doesn't work that way. The changes are so subtle, or maybe so sudden, that I end up writing things like "A has been turning the pages of his book during bedtime story." Daddy doesn't know when he started, and we've only been reading him a book for 3 days but his grandma read him a cloth book, maybe he turned the pages for her?
I also ended up writing "A drank water out of an open cup all by himself" on several days. I guess I captured the first time he did it, but did he really do nothing new on the other days?
Babies develop at lightning speed. One day they have teeth. One day they can drink out of a cup. One day he will use a fork and a spoon and sleep by himself.
In the early days, when I was obsessed with where and how the baby slept (because he would only sleep on me, latched onto the boob), someone said to me, "The nights are long, but the years are short."
Indeed. And I'm capturing at least five of them, in slow motion.
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