Milestones

This morning, I woke up to a low grunting from my son’s crib, which is normally the signal to “I’m awake!”. So I rolled out of bed as I usually do and walked to his crib. To my shock and awe, there’s my seven-month-old, sitting up in his crib, happy as can be, putting his hands out to me to pick him up. This is the first time he’s pulled himself up from a laydown to a sit and maintained it all by himself. At this moment, inside, I’m screaming, “Do you know you’re sitting?! All by yourself?!” but I figured if I had of let that out, I would have scared him and he would have fell over. So, instead I picked him up and praised him, and hugged him firmly. I suppose, that being a Mom is not about how great your baby is, or what they can do better than the other, but rather, a Mom doing what is best for her baby at every possible time. A Mom, is a person who thinks not of her own happiness first, but of both hers and her child’s happiness as an equal. There’s something you can chew on for today.