When He Comes Running Back
October 12, 2007 by Mommy Zabs
Filed under Blogging, Children, Family, Featured, Group Writing Project, Motherhood
I love Lukie’s age so much. I wish I could freeze him. This may be due to the fact that I birthed and nursed a newborn when Owen was this age. I find that time so fuzzy. It may be due to the fact that the reality of his growing up so quickly is staring me in the face. The fact that his face keeps changing causing me to confront the disappearance of his babyhood melts me. All those things considered, the thing that hits me the most, the thing that tugs at my heart strings, when anything goes wrong, he always comes running back.
I’m still important to him. Is that selfish? I mean the world to him right now and I love that. I love his tiny arms around my neck seeking consolation of any kind. I love his craving for my comfort. When he’s close I still smell baby. I know that smell is fading, quickly.
He just decided he wanted a big boy bed. It’s early for that. We did it anyway. He has gone “potty” on the toilet 5 times at his own request. He goes into nursery at church with out a fear. Awe. I love these baby years. They go far too fast.
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Written for the October Mama Blogga Group Writing Project.
meridith on Fri, 12th Oct 2007 4:04 pm
awww, luky is so precious. how wonderful that you can thoroughly enjoy both your boys.
Brandi @ Home, Hope and Future on Fri, 12th Oct 2007 4:14 pm
He is SO big!!! I can’t believe that!! Ridiculous, I say.
Give our love to your whole family,
Brandi
Karen on Fri, 12th Oct 2007 4:37 pm
As the mom of a 10 and 13 yr old, I wholeheartedly agree that the baby phase passes too quickly. Savor it, blog about it, snap pictures of it….it doesn’t last forever.
Summer on Fri, 12th Oct 2007 7:09 pm
He’s such a cutie. I will be so devastated when the last of my babies suddenly realizes I’m not the whole world anymore.
John K. on Fri, 12th Oct 2007 7:22 pm
“I wish I could freeze him”
I hear that is expensive. Plus you eventually have to melt them anyway. We are talking about cryogenics right?
Randa Clay on Fri, 12th Oct 2007 9:39 pm
Sweet boy… I wonder if you only fully appreciate how fast the babyhood is fading on the second one? On the first one, maybe you just don’t know what you have until it’s gone. In such a hurry to get on to the next exciting stage of development.
misi on Sat, 13th Oct 2007 8:23 am
No your not selfish. Just a mom who loves her babies…. He’s so adorable E.
Marie on Sat, 13th Oct 2007 12:54 pm
I barely remember my son’s infancy, he’s only 4! I remember a lot more of my duaghter’s (2), maybe because she screamed a lot. But I remember admiring the way she kept her fists clenched tight against her chest, like it was a sign of her strong will. Now we’re thinking about #3, I’m wondering if I will cherish the infancy more this time around.
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Jennifer on Sun, 14th Oct 2007 8:02 pm
What a great post. All this remembering is exactly the purpose that my site. I don’t want to forget.
phyllis on Sun, 14th Oct 2007 10:43 pm
i love that feeling…”i’m still important to him.” you express so beautifully the fleeting nature of the baby-stage…can we bottle up that “baby smell”???
tiff on Mon, 15th Oct 2007 4:10 am
I miss the baby days alot but each new stage is wonderous. A really wonderful post.
shawn on Mon, 15th Oct 2007 7:15 am
Aw, I love that image of him running back to you. Nice to meet you!
Jordan (MamaBlogga) on Mon, 15th Oct 2007 11:58 am
I love that title! I don’t think it’s selfish to love being important to him; I worry that sometimes I don’t value that enough (y’know, after the fourth hour of him trying to climb on me constantly)!
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Mama Zen on Mon, 15th Oct 2007 1:51 pm
Lovely! Don’t you wish that you could bottle that baby smell?
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MamaLady on Mon, 15th Oct 2007 2:12 pm
So true.
A friend told me a few years ago that while her mother was having some severe health problems, they thought they were going to loose her. On her death bed it was not her husband, her children or grandchildren that she called for. It was her mother. This woman was in her late 70s and the only person she wanted with her at the most difficult moment in her life was her mother.
What a mission we mothers have. What a delicious responsibility! I don’t want to squander one minute of it.
Thanks for sharing about your boy. He’s a doll baby.
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stacey on Wed, 17th Oct 2007 10:35 pm
oh, i know, i know, i know how you feel! and how cute, we call our’s “lukey” too. it seems contagious, but not sure how it will work when he is a teen on the football field!!