Daily adventures of being "Mom"

It's been hitting me lately how big D is getting. She's 18 months old, and fiercely independent! The other day I was changing her diaper, and turned to find her pants and when I came back she had grabbed her dirty diaper, walked over, lifted up the lid to her diaper pail and plopped it in! I was just so wrapped up in that moment, I could have cried (I might have teared up a little). It just hit me, how big she's getting. She helps me pick up her snacks she drops on the floor, pick up coat-hangers when I'm done hanging laundry. She tells me when her diaper is wet ( Pats herself and says BUTT! Meaning "Change my Butt!"). The other day we were watching TLC and there were babies on the TV, she toddled off and came back with her baby doll and rocked him and cuddled him and wrapped him up in a blanket. My little girl is getting soo big! And in case you couldn't tell I am having a BIG case of baby fever. So in lieu of that, let's have a view of D over the past 18 months...