Milestones

When your baby is small, the milestones are many and come rather quickly. Jr. arrives and before you know it he is gazing intently at you, holding up his wobbly wee head, and rolling over to see Oprah. It goes so quickly. When grown ups are adding to their wrinkle collections, they tend to say that a lot more, but that is a whole other story.

There are excellent ways to mark the passing of these milestones. You can take pictures of your baby next to the same stuffed bear from the beginning. You can take a picture of your five-pound wonder next to a bag of flour or your ten-pound hunk-a-love next to a bowling ball. You can write in a journal, keep a scrapbook or hire a photographer. These are a few ideas and you can spend your whole life getting more ideas (and maybe more anxiety?) by doing a search on the web.

As children get older, the milestones get more subtle and seem to have more time in between them. Of course they get taller and their bodies change but often there are big leaps in maturity and understanding the more adult concepts of life. They may become more compassionate as they continue to expand their understanding of the world outside of themselves. Perhaps they have their first crush. Their shoulders get ridiculously broad.

There is nothing we can do about these changes. We celebrate the tiny ones and start panicking when the big ones approach. Where did all the time go? What do you mean those aren’t Daddy’s socks and you need to get your shoes on? Since when can everyone in the house reach the cereal bowls? These are horrifying things for parents to see and yet we nearly burst at the seams with pride for these people we are readying for the world.

When you feel the sweat prickling on your neck because you realize you haven’t posted pictures onto a family web page every 90 seconds, remember not so long ago, the average parent did not even have a camera. Along with the doorjamb, they marked their soul with the child’s growth. They absorbed the moments of life when they could and probably missed a lot of them. Mark your milestones with something simple. Even memories will do.

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