Austin has been playing us...

We spent Valentine's Day this year with some of our friends from Lamaze class who also have a little boy who is a month younger than Austin.  We went to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings and then when we got home Kasi gave Chance his bottle.  Let me back up and say that Austin had never held his own bottle before...so Chance is sitting on our title floor in the kitchen and David calls me over to look at him because he sitting holding and drinking his own bottle.  That was Saturday...Sunday we decided that Austin was going to start holding his own bottle.  I laid Austin down and put his hands on his bottle and that was it.  It was like he knew how to do it the whole time.  Little booger!  Actually I will use the excuse that he just wanted us to hold him because he loves being with his mom and dad.  Haha.  It is amazing how much Austin has grown up since he was born.  Lately it really seems like when he wakes up from a nap he is bigger.  Pretty soon he will be running around outside telling us he is going to his friends house.  It sort of makes me sad how fast he is growing up but I guess that just means our role as parents begins to change from being the provider and doing everything for him to the teacher and teaching him how to do things and letting him learn about his world.  Both roles are rewarding but I must admit the times where they sleep on your chest or fall asleep in your arms are some of my favorite memories.  There are some night still where he falls asleep drinking his bottle and I just hold him a little longer before putting him in his crib because you just want to stare at the miracle GOD brought into your life that you love more than anything in the world.