When I’m an Adult
Adults have way more fun.
Isn’t it funny how when we’re kids all we want to do is grow up so we can do all the things that older people do? Like having the freedom to eat sweets right before bed, crossing the street without holding hands, staying at the playground all day if you wanted.
My 3-year -old can’t wait to be an “andult”. (Whenever she hears us say adult it’s always preceded by an.. “an adult” so she thinks the word is andult.)
One random morning at preschool, she told all of her teachers and anyone else walking by that when she grew up to be an andult she could drink coffee, soda, beer and diet coke. She spoke with such enthusiasm you’d think she’d just discovered the New World.
Everyday I feel like she’s growing so fast, soaking up new concepts and coming up with her own ideas. One definite way I can tell she’s gone from a toddler to a little girl is the way she talks. For example, one of the first things she learned to say was her own name, Serophina, except she would pronounce it “Teratina”. Every time she said Teratina, our hearts would melt into a goopy mush of baby love & wonder. Then, suddenly one day when she was about 2 ½ years old, she said it exactly right… Serophina. No T’s whatsoever.
It was bittersweet because it was a sign that she was getting so big and so smart, slowly growing out of the babbling, toddling baby that she was. I remember feeling like she was just born, I blinked, and two years had gone by.
At least I still have a few other words that she still can’t say quite right. For example shrimp, very and from, she pronounces chrimp, berry and trum. I hope it stays that way for at least a little while longer. I feel like those are the last traces of baby in her and I’m not quite ready to let go of that just yet.
So true! My 10 month old is already growing up too fast for my liking! It’s funny because on one hand I am overjoyed when Isaac reaches a new milestone or learns a new trick, but then on the other hand I am somewhat weepy over “losing my baby.”
I go through his photo albums almost every week just to reminisce over my newborn (: