9 months ago

9 months ago today, I was sitting in a hospital bed, in pain but content. I was holding my newborn baby girl. I was happy, scared, angry, and tired. In short, I was one big ball of emotions. Today, I am still one big ball of emotions. How can my sweet, innocent baby girl already be 9 months old? She is so different from her older sister. Brylin is my calm baby. Of course, she is also my clingy baby. She is growing so much quicker than Piper and she is learning quicker as well. We have gone through quite a bit of learning together, from how to breast feed to learning her subtle little cues. There are many times that I am still clueless as to what my baby girl is trying to tell me. It still amazes me how a tiny, helpless baby who cannot talk can communicate so easily. Sure I am still learning the differences between her cries, but it is finally getting easier for me. And now, she is beginning to talk. She clearly says mama, dada, no, boo, and nigh (night). Every so often she says baby and oof (woof). She is walking around furniture, climbing on everything, and attempting to stand all by herself. She is at what I like to call the fun age...the one where everything is a learning experience for her and she has not completely learned that art of tantrums (although Piper is quickly teaching her those as well). Soon I will no longer have a baby, but a toddler, and then a preschooler, followed by a child, a teenager, and then she will turn into an adult herself. So, before she grows too fast, I am going to take this time to enjoy her, at this perfect age. I am also going to enjoy Piper, even though she is at that trying terrible two's phase. I am going to take one day at a time with my girls and try to enjoy the innocence that they both have.