In the middle of the night, my wife wakes me. "Can you get a diaper and change the baby?" Our seven-month-old is crying. I decide to attempt the dangerous grab-the-diaper-and-change-the-baby-on-the-bed-in-the-dark maneuver. This is not a move for rookies, but a 4 baby veteran such as myself should be able to manage it.
The funny thing was that when I reached for her feet, I got her knees instead. I couldn't see, so I was going off my body's sort of internal estimate of how long she is, but I was waaaay off. I paused for a second as I realized, she's a whole lot bigger than she was the last time I did this. And that wasn't that long ago.
She's growing up way too fast for this dad.
--Paul
Posted by paul at October 1, 2003 02:28 PM