Here's a post I wrote two years ago - March 2012 - but never published. Ironically, I still feel pretty much this same way. I have a hard time writing about my kids these days because the moments feel so precious, and so fleeting. But I want to be writing about them. Isn't that the whole point - the writing them down allows me to hold on to them? So here's this post, two years later. Emry in March 2012, 17 months old I haven't written specifically about Emry in a little while. There's a reason for this. My baby is growing up fast, and I'm awfully emotional about it. He was such a baby for such a long time. He got his first tooth at 14 months. He was a dedicated crawler, not interested in walking until recently. He was a mellow and happy baby. I loved it. What can I say? I love the baby phase. I adore the snuggling, the holding, the way I could meet all his needs. Now if I had a colicky baby, I'm sure I wouldn't love this phase. But Emry has been a dream baby. The kind of happy, ... more