I have a picture on my desktop of Brandon when he was about 8 months old. It's a beautiful photo of a happy, pudgy baby. He's sitting up with a sweet toothless grin on his face. His hair is very fair and thin. He's holding up his hands like he used to do when he was excited about something. I love that photo.
Jamie happened to walk by the other day and see my desktop photo. He said "Wow, our boy sure doesn't look like that anymore". I thought about this and realized he's right. At 17 months Brandon has lost a lot of his baby looks. His face is longer and thinner. His hair has darkened and grown in thicker. He has a total of 11 teeth now and his eyes have seem to have decided they will be hazel green. Still beautiful to me, I'm starting to see how he might look as a young boy.
And what a boy he is! I call him "Brandon the Destroyer" because he often likes to throw things or take things apart just to see if he can put them back together. He still loves to play with mega blocks (he builds towers just so he can knock them down) and push toy cars around. His favourite word right now is "Truck" only he pronounces it like "Cruck" and when we're driving in the car he likes to point out every "cruck" he sees.
As a toddler he's busy from sunup to sundown and, at times, I feel like I don't really get to see him so much as chase after him. I look at my baby Brandon picture and I realize just how much he's grown in these past nine months. I wish time would slow down a little bit but I know it won't so maybe I should update my desktop with a new photo. A picture of my busy toddler who refuses to smile for the camera now. At the rate he's growing though, it will be out-dated by tomorrow :)
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