Time goes on and on

Time is going by so incredibly fast! Tomorrow Alex will be 9 months old. That is sort of insane. I realized with a bit of a bittersweet feeling that in 3 months I will have a toddler and not a baby - although he will always be a baby to me. He started standing up holding onto furniture 2 weeks after he started crawling, and now he's trying to cruise. Again insane. Not only that, this month Brian and I will be married for 3 and a half years, and it will be over five years since I met him. Again super insane! Yes time seems to slip between my fingers and there is nothing I can do to make it slow down. Or at least that's what it feels like, except when I look at pictures. For a brief minute that moment, those seconds were frozen in that particular picture and I can relive that moment. Often this brings bittersweet feelings. For example, I have bittersweet feelings whenever I see a picture of Alex as a newborn. I'm grateful I'm not feeding him 8-10 times a day but I also miss that tiny body.

I have similar feelings whenever I see a picture of our early dating days with Brian. That excitement of first holding hands and so many firsts, but I'm so glad that now I can happily say that he will also be my last and that is a very comforting feeling.

Yes many things come and go indeed. So today I'm grateful for the technology we currently have to capture those moments. Brian will be amazed on that statement because I'm usually bashing technology in arguing how unreliable it is haha. But in this particular case I'm grateful because I have the ability to freeze a piece of joy and happiness onto something I can keep and then experience again. Things that in time I would more than likely forget.