Time Flies

It feels like I just brought Julia home from the hospital and she looked like this.

I know she wasn't a really little baby then because she was almost 9 pounds at birth, but now she is huge at almost 19 pounds. 

This week, I really realized how big she is getting and how fast time is going.  We had a lot of firsts this week.  She sat in the bathtub for the first time without her bath seat.  She absolutely loved that.  She went to the waterpark and sat in the pool by herself.  I managed to get a picture of that.

She also sat in a shopping cart for the first time with her brother and without.  I love that the got to sit together.  It was so cute!  They also entertained each other for the whole shopping trip!

We had a big milestone at the end of the week.  Julia has been trying to crawl for the past few weeks and this week, she succeeded and is moving all over the room.  I managed to videotape her as she was learning.

Then, this morning, she pulled herself up in her crib!  Again, time is moving too fast!  Of course, we have started installing baby gates everywhere and we lowered the crib this evening.  I love that she is learning all of these new things and every milestone is exciting, but I feel like she is moving out of the baby phase too fast.  She will probably be my last little baby and I want to savor it, not speed it up.