Milestones

Raising a child comes with many milestones. Some of them are small, like going up a shoe size. These typically don't involve much fanfare and more then anything else it is a time to reflect on how big your baby is getting. Other milestones are much larger. These involve loosing teeth, walking and the such and bring with them many Kodak moments. Well, we have just had one such event. Mia is no longer wearing nappies at night. She asked to not wear them anymore and for lots of reasons, which involve our reluctance to have a little girl rather then a baby and the work of getting up in the night, we postponed the event.

We finally gave in and three nights ago Mia stopped wearing nappies to bed and now wears just knickers. Thus far she has had great success, and is very proud of her achievement. We do get her up a couple of times a night to wee, but otherwise, thus far, she has been very successful.

What this means, as I mentioned above, is that we now have a child who is a little girl not a baby. She is no longer wearing nappies at any time, she no longer takes naps, she uses the adult toilet, and on and on. She has graduated to the next step in life; one that I am not sure we are wholly ready for. Every day both Andrea and I are just amazed at how big Mia is getting and how independent she can be.

When we discussed having a child four years ago, we could not have imagined the little girl that we have. Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. We are so proud of her and think that she is just the most wonderful person (a feat considering that half of her came from me). I don't know why she appears to do so well, maybe it is the diet of seaweed, or maybe it is the fact that her parents are so well adjusted. Whatever the reason, we sure do hope that we continue to do the right things, what ever those things are. In the meantime we will wait for the next major milestone, something that seems to be getting closer and closer to marriage.