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In a Blink of an Eye
Time Flies When You're Having Fun
By Mark Stackpole
Oh, and then there's that joy and pride thing that comes from actually watching your baby learn and grow right before your very eyes. Amazing.
Every time I blinked my eyes, my baby girl grew up a little bit. While she is hardly grown up, I can still see that neighborhood from here. And it is certainly a nice neighborhood – I am just not ready to move there just yet. Thus far, the timeline has looked something like this:
BLINK: Four plus years go by as Charlotte and I try to get pregnant. (OK, I'll readily admit that it seemed like forever when we were going through it, but I now have the advantage of looking back through my baby-colored glasses.)
BLINK: Charlotte's belly gets bigger as I sing to that little tiny mass of cells that continues to develop into my daughter.
BLINK: In the most amazing effort I have ever seen, Corinne emerges from Charlotte, each of them beautiful and exhausted from the journey. Corinne was not crying but rather looking all around with her impossibly big eyes, tongue out the whole time. I could only look at Char and tell her, "You did it." She agreed. Corinne cried a little, but who didn't?
BLINK: After the hubbub, the three of us, assisted by our loving and attention-starved dogs, settle into our life together.
BLINK: Corinne is reaching for things, eating baby food, standing with help and obviously not that far way from sitting on her own and crawling. She expresses her likes and dislikes through a series of smiles, grunts and squeals. Her little personality is beginning to assert itself.
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