totally out of the blue

So I have been a subscriber to BabyCenter.com for over 7 years now. It's this crazy awesome (free) site that will update you weekly when you are pregnant and will tell you everything you need to know about what your baby is doing that week and what is normal for you and your body that week. I read the updates religiously when I was pregnant with Nifae and it was WAYYYYYYY better than the book What To Expect when Expecting. After the baby is born it updates you on what your child should be doing and what is normal or what to look out for. I loved to read all of them weekly. Then after a year monthly updates about what my child could/should do. When I got pregnant with Owen I read them all over again and Tommy and I enjoyed comparing the 2 pregnancies. By the time I had Lilia I was just reading the short snippets of all 3 kids.

ANYWAY~ I sometimes read them to Tommy just to keep him up to-date on what the kids can do or somethings we should work on.
Today we were driving down the road and I was reading them to Tommy like I have done many times. Here is what I was reading:

Talking like a pro
Most 7-year-olds speak clearly – and often! Many of the speech impediments (such as lisps) that affect the speech of younger kids disappear this year as fine-motor control of the tongue and mouth matures. Newly minted 7-year-olds can hold their own verbally with much older kids.


So I get to this point and I am totally fine.... but then I read the next line~

They have a vocabulary in the thousands of words and understand still more.

Nothing major right? wrong, I just lost it and start to cry. It totally shocked me and Tommy was looking at me like I was an alien. What in the world was I crying about???


Well, I just remember his first word, "Ball" and how he would say "ba" and the first time he said "Mama" and "Papa" and I remember writing down all the words he knew. How in the world did we jump from that to my little baby having a vocabulary in the thousands?? When exactly did that happen? I was so shocked that tears were running down my face.


I don't know why I felt the need to blog this but here I am. I just can't believe how fast time goes by. I love my kids so much and love to know and see what they can do. I love to see them grow and change but I really really really miss my little babies. Sometimes I get stuck in front of the computer scrolling through their pictures or playing little snippets of videos we took forever ago. It just goes by to fast!