Hitting the slo-mo button

I swear all I did was blink, maybe I blinked for a second to long, but when I opened my eyes everything seemed different. My boy can roll over now, and he has started sleeping on his stomach at night (insert Alleluia chorus). He has started to eat rice cereal, once a day and today we are adding another serving of the gloopy goodness. It seems very likely that he will soon sit up on his own, and I swear he looks bigger this morning than he did last night. I completely understand why people say the first year passes by in the blink of an eye, because I'm pretty sure it was just yesterday that I was wondering when this kid was FINALLY going to fit into a 3 month sized onesie. (In case anyone wonders (um, probably not, but anyway), the child is wearing 9 month onesies, so really I shouldn't have worried.)

There are moments I try and seer into my mind, like the times I am giving Matty a bath and the way he kicks his little legs, and purses his lips together with total concentration. Or like this morning, when Jim was holding him, they were sitting at the dining room table and Matty reached out with extreme determination and grabbed the toy that was in front of him, without dropping it on the floor (I am submitting his application to America's Got Talent as I type this). And just yesterday I had Matty on his little play mat in the kitchen while I was fixing something and realized that I needed something in the living room. The child was on his back when I left and when I came back he had rolled almost all the way off the mat, much to my utter surprise. He was absolutely FINE, though he seemed a little surprised at himself.

Let's see. What other bits of information that are only exciting to momma or daddy can I write about? Matthew is obsessed with watching either Jim or me take a drink. In fact, Jim has started letting Matty take sips from a cup to get him used to drinking. There are times when I am feeding Matthew and he will sneak his finger into his mouth at the same time he is eating. I look down and realize that my boy is trying to maximize his potential by doing double duty sucking, and when I take his finger out his mouth he happily goes back to nursing. Really, the whole process is quite endearing, and makes me realize my son is even cuter than I thought possible.

The days are passing by way too quickly, and yet I am excited for each new day that I get to spend with Matthew. Life is good, even if there is no slow motion button.