When a baby is born, it's like HOLY CRAP A BABY!! And then if you're lucky and have a normal healthy baby, it is not capable of much more than eating, pooping, making a bunch of noise, and hanging around being adorable. Then it starts to grow and exciting things start to happen.
The baby picked up its own head and moved it around all by itself!! HUGE SUCCESS! Then the baby does that all the time and it's no big deal.
The baby becomes aware of its own limbs! HUGE SUCCESS! Then the baby does that all the time and it's no big deal.
The baby eats solid food for the first time!!! HUGE SUCCESS! Then the baby does that all the time and it's no big deal.
BABY TAKES FIRST STEP!! HUGE SUCCESS! Then the baby does that all the time and it's no big deal.
Etc.
What I'm getting at here is that it's really fun to be so excited about all the little things. And so easy to lose sight of how amazing we are as humans as the exciting things become common. But check out all the cool stuff we can do! And check out how quickly we learn to do it!
The other day Cole threw a basketball into the net by himself for the first time on purpose. It was really exciting!! It was a HUGE SUCCESS!! And True was lying on her belly looking one way, and then she picked up her head and looked in the other direction all by herself! HUGE SUCCESS!! They are totally different levels of success but super exciting either way. We as a species are capable of so much. It's just cool.
What I'm wondering though, is do achievements that we consider so exciting become rarer as we get older? Or does our appreciation for greatness just become more discerning?
In other news, yesterday we enjoyed the spring weather and went for a walk in Cabot Woods.
It was a beautiful sunny but chilly afternoon.
Cole threw rocks in the brook.
And Kate tried to take a serious portrait of the guys.
And then we played a whole bunch of hide and seek with Cole.
It was really fun! Cole's sense of what you can hide behind is a little skewed though.
It makes it easy for monsters to sneak up and NOM HIM!!
Though I don't think he minds.
True wasn't impressed by all this "outdoors" malarkey.
But Cole frigg'n loved it.
We ended the afternoon barreling through the woods with reckless abandon. Well ... Cole did anyway.
Lastly, I experimented with some photos shooting into the sun just for kicks.
Happy Marathon Monday! Go runners go!
3 comments:
So true how quickly what was once awesome becomes normal.
We adapt and accept and expect things so easily.
I think that more time you spend around kids, the more renewed your own sense of wonder becomes. They remind us of all these things that are truly awesome in the real sense of the word - awe inspiring - but we as grown ups are too cranky/tired/busy/jaded/uptight/distracted to notice them.
I love this post... HUGE SUCCESS!!! Made me giggle with a little tear starting well up in my eyeball, Then it made me what to run and hide behind a skinny tree and pretend no one could see me. HA-HA!
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