Mommy Moment

Rebekah is finally walking! Well, for the most part. She took her real first steps a few weeks ago at my mom and dad's house and now she "practices" all the time. She will walk a good distance (of course with her arms straight up in the air for balance and out of excitement), only to get tired and crawl for a while. Then she'll take a few more tiny steps and fall. She doesn't quite know how to get back up (I know it takes a while to learn) and gets frustrated. You can tell she carefully calculates where she's going to go next, and you can almost read her mind when she realizes something is too far and drops to the floor to crawl instead. It is soo precious, but I have yet to get it on camera!

Anyway, I know that every mama probably says this, but I was so anxious for her to start walking, and now I just want her to shrink and be a newborn all over again! Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade those sweet, slobbery kisses or hugs and cuddle time with my sweetheart. No, I wouldn't trade those priceless "toofy" grins (that now come with a squeal), watching her get excited to see her daddy, her attempts at making us laugh, hearing her yell "NaNa"(that is.."Mama" in her own words) to get my attention, or her sweet attempt at saying "Amen" when we pray. I love every moment of our baby being One. But sometimes I wish I could just go back to when she was itty bitty and just stay there a minute longer.

I guess I just realize that she's becoming more independent. This is just the first of many things to come. I mean, for now it's just walking. But one day, I'll be seeing Jason walk her down the aisle. I can only pray that I savor each moment we have with her in between now and then and that Jason and I will be Godly examples and good parents to our Bekah along the way. I pray that as she grows up and gains even more independence, that she will always know how blessed she is and that she will have a close and personal relationship with God. I pray that she and I will always have the same close relationship that we have now.

Having said all of that, I guess you could say that I am pretty excited about our "baby" getting to be more of a big girl. And I just know that she's going to be the best big sister to her little brother or sister!