Why Can't They Just Stay Babies?

So, this morning when I dropped Avery off at daycare, they mentioned that he was visiting the next room today, the room that they graduate to at about 8 or 9 months, and that I should just bring him over there right away. I wanted to break down and cry. He has visited this room before, but I have never had to drop him off there. I don’t know if this was the reason I was so weepy, or if this caused a sudden realization that my baby, my last baby, was growing up. I don’t think that it helped that, since he is only visiting, he doesn’t have his own assigned crib or his own coat hook, so I was a little lost of what I was supposed to do with all of his stuff.

Before I had a chance to sneak out of there and secretly let the tears fall, they ask me if they can start trying him on table foods. What?!?! I send food with him everyday, food that I have lovingly cooked and pureed myself. I agreed that they can start on some of the snack foods such as puffs and Cheerios but that I will continue to send his lunch. Am I being overprotective? Should I learn to let go a little more? He is only 7 ½ months old and is only sporting 4 little nubs for teeth at this point. A part of me just feels like it is too soon.

When I got out to my car, I did let a little tear fall and then my conscious told me to snap out of it. It’s inevitable, he is going to grow up and I should be joyful for these milestones.

I think that is why I started the scrap. So that I can try and preserve these precious memories before I get too caught up in life and have no recollection of them. I only wish I had discovered it sooner. I want to go back and scrap pictures of my older boys as babies, but sadly details will be incomplete or left out as now those moments are only memories from the past. Why can’t they just stay babies?