DeLorean Needed!!!

March 2, 2012

There’s something about becoming a parent for the first time. Recently a few friends of mine have become first time parents and I’m completely and totally jealous of them.

I’m not jealous of the lack of sleep, the nervousness of learning how to handle an infant and I’m not jealous of being a Human vending machine for an infant. I am, however, jealous of going through all those experiences with a fresh perspective.

When Drew was first born, I was so overwhelmed with everything. Drew never slept, he never allowed me to put him down and he ate incessantly (kinda like now actually, just not off of me). And because of all that, I feel like I didn’t appreciate so much of it. At that time, I was so overwhelmed with what I was going through I didn’t realize how fleeting it would be.

When Gabby was first born, there was so much more going on in my life than just her infancy. She was a great baby despite some serious boughts of colic. She ate when she was supposed to, slept when she was supposed to and was the perfect amount of snuggly. She had no choice though. She had to allow for a crazy big brother to take up all the space. And as a result of my life being so very hectic, it seems like a blip in time.

My friends with their new infants are getting to go through all that excitement from the beginning. Each stage that my children have gone through has been thrilling and exciting in its own right. When each of them progressed from infancy to babyhood, it was so much fun to play with them and for them to smile and giggle. When they went from babyhood to their toddler days, it was great seeing them develop some independence. And now that Drew is officially a child, a little boy, it has been so wonderful to see him become such a person with such a spirit.

Similar to my feelings with marriage, I want to go on the ride again. I want to revisit a world where Drew is my first new baby. I want to see what it was like being a three person family. I want to soak up Gabby’s infancy all over again. I can only imagine the feelings of longing I will have once my children become adults. We video tape, take an abundance of pictures and document everything, yet we will never get those times back. Maybe I should invest in one of Doc’s DeLorean time machines. Everyone wanna pitch in?

2 thoughts on “DeLorean Needed!!!

  1. Heli,

    I personally love Gabby’s style. Where did she get that beautiful shirt? HAHAHA! I LOVE IT!

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