Dad-deee!: The moments when you realize time don't stop

The drawback of having two beatiful kids apparently is that neither of them will be great sleepers for you.  Darcy is shattering Noah's records given the fact that I have to wake up with her at least 2 or more times every night.  2 times is her "I'm feeling okay" standard.  Lately since she's been congested, it's closer to like 3 or 4.

With Noah, he usually slept well at night, but naps were a mess.  When we finally weaned him of night feedings, I discovered the trick to getting him to bed: Rocking.  Yeah, I was a PhD of rocking my son to sleep in the recliner and moving him to bed/crib.  And the same thing MOSTLY worked for naps.  So, that became a big bonding thing for us, I got so used to the best way to rock him to sleep having him lay across me in the chair.  Obviously, that thing ended long ago, as he got big enough to put himself to sleep and eventually, with napping, it became more or less a "I'll go down on my own" or "I won't nap" thing.

Tonight, he was fooling around before he went to sleep and he rolled off the bed and right onto his humidifier.  Obviously, toddler tearworks ensued and I picked him up to comfort him.  I ended up laying him across my lap to calm him down.  And that's when it happened....

I realized how much my little guy has grown.  I nearly lost it.  He sticks out about 6 or 7 inches on each side of the chair.  It seems like just a year ago, I was rocking him to sleep for naps in that chair when he'd become too tired to go down on his own.  And here we are, he doesn't even fit here anymore.

Not ashamed to admit it, I nearly broke down realizing this.  Just seeing how much he's grown physically, not even considering his mental growth...He's almost not even my little guy anymore.  He's practically elementary school big for pete's sake!  I need to not fret so much over how often I wake up with Darcy.  Because in no time at all, she won't fit in the chair either.  And that's going to be a heartbreaker.

And now, to shake me out of this lovey moment...I just went up for the 3rd time to put Noah back in his bed.  Toddler cute moment over...