He's Growing Up

There are some things that Corin does that make it really hit hard that he is growing up, developing and progressing. Tonight I had one of those moments. Usually when Corin eats it is deconstructed. For example, today all of us went out shopping. We go out every year to get specific Christmas decorations for cheap; lights for the outside of the house and Village pieces. Afterwards we went to lunch at Old Chicago, since I had a craving for pizza (which can be bad for the heartburn, but when I'm pregnant I get focused on one food that I want and nothing else sounds good enough to replace it. The heartburn actually wasn't bad because Shane and I shared a stuffed pizza with Canadian bacon, red peppers and tomatoes and I ate little of the marinara sauce that comes on the side--Hurray! I got what I wanted and less heartburn!) Corin was excited to get pizza too. So, he got his own mini pizza and pulled off the pepperoni and cheese before eating the bread. When he eats a sandwich he pulls off the meat and cheese to eat first and the bread is last (so at home he just gets meat and cheese on a plate with some crackers) So, anyway, this is his normal way of eating "put together" foods. But, today for dinner was different. I didn't make dinner tonight because we had a big lunch and there were left overs from our Christmas Eve dinner (All the left overs from Christmas dinner got left at my parents house) Corin said he wanted cereal and that is what he got. He usually eats dry cereal and a sippy cup of milk, but tonight he "poured" (the sippy cup is leak proof, so nothing came out) into his bowl of cereal and so I decided that he could try eating cereal, the grown up way. HE DID GREAT!! Sometimes he reverts to eating with his hands, which drives me crazy because I have the thought "you should be old enough to eat with utensils" But tonight he did for 2 1/2 small kid bowls of cereal (Wheat Chex, he has always been good whatever kind he is given, usually its on the healthier side) I know that he is growing up, but tonight was just one of those stronger affirmations of it as I watched him eating cereal with milk on it. It is a bittersweet moment to watch your child grow up and develop. Some moments are nice, like now he will play and imagine with his toys, can communicate and other times when I look at our screen saver of pictures of him when he was an infant I miss that too. But, now we are starting over and I'll have my little infant Declan to hold in my arms in March and have my little boy Corin to help get things for me.