How Quickly They (B) Grow

I really never realized how quickly children can change the first year of life. Well, I know they go from being truly helpless to walking within a year, but I didn't really realize how drastic the growth really is.

I was looking through our iPhoto program yesterday, looking for pictures to put in a book or calendar for my Mother for Christmas. Either is a good idea for her, since there really isn't anything she needs or wants. She always says, "save your money, I don't want anything." But I know she would enjoy a little book of photos of B and she would use a calendar for sure. Anyway, I was as I was showing B the pictures of here when she was a baby, I was really shocked. Here are a couple of pictures that highlight her growth. Oh, and you know what is sad? Of all the pictures I take, so few are actually good.

3/2/2007

I don't have any pictures on the computer before this.

New camera, new computer. My little chubbub.

5/10/2007

Just a couple of months late and crawling.

Still not a lot of hair.

9/6/2007

A little over a week after she started walking.

10/13/2007

The walking really slimmed her down, and

oddly made her hair grow. Go figure.

1/9/08

This is when she used to let me dress her.

She would never wear this now.

10/9/2008

Right after her birthday.

1/1/09

Not much different from the last picture.

This is from 10/21/09.

My grown up girl who eats

cake all by herself, picks out her own clothes, and knows

the difference between a quadruped and a biped.

I hope I am good about taking photos of Charlie after he/she is born. It is fun to go back and look at B as she has grown. I always think she looks the same, never changing. And she pretty much looks like herself in all these photos. A lot of the same expressions, doing the same things, and the same hair color (though it blonds in the summer then goes back to strawberry in the winter). I will have to remind myself to go through the pictures from time to time, so I don't find myself wondering when she grew up - though I do wonder when she went from 3 to 12.