I haven’t been very good about keeping up with this blog. I am really starting to wish I had too because so many key milestones have happened in the last couple months with Isabella.
She’s now ONE! It didn’t hit me quite so hard until today. I was pushing her around the block in her stroller and had a flashback to the day her mom and I took her with us to her mom’s dentist appointment. She was two months old and so not used to me yet. I remember how little she was in my arms and how careful I had to be with her little, fragile body as she screamed bloody murder. I felt powerless in those beginning days. I had plenty of experience caring for infants. I was an infant teacher at Goddard. I knew how to calm down just about any baby. But for some reason in that first week with Isabella, I felt like I couldn’t. Thank goodness that was only a phase for her. I learned that although it was difficult dealing with her screaming and fighting the bottle every time it was time to eat, through my patience with her, I earned her trust. Yet another way kids teach you life lessons in unexpected ways.
