It should've happened many months ago, but I kept on coming up with excuses not to do it. I'm talking about changing my 3-year-old son's crib into a toddler bed. It may not sound like a big deal to some, but to me, it was the realization that not only is my son no longer a baby, but also the acceptance that we'll never have a need for a crib in our house again. It's not that I want more children, it's just that I'm finding it hard to believe that mine have grown so quickly.
I felt the same way when my son stopped using his high chair, when he was fully potty trained and when he told me he didn't need help getting dressed. He does, but just the fact he said that made me sad.
I know I should celebrate all his milestones and be happy and grateful that he's reaching them when he's supposed to, but I feel like I've lost something that I will never get back. I look at his crib, now converted into a toddler bed, and I remember how tiny he was when I moved him there from his cradle when he was just 4 months old. And I simply can't understand how it is that it's been almost three years since that day. Where did time go?
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Now that he no longer sleeps in a crib, the only thing that remains from his baby years is his room's decor which, as you can see in the picture above, needs some serious work ever since he decided he didn't like the farm animal wall border. I know that's next, but that one will be even harder because it currently looks the same way it looked more than six years ago, when our first child was born.
I don't remember being too sad when I moved Vanessa out of that room and into her own–very pink and full of princesses–room a few weeks before Santiago was born. I guess it was because even though that meant she was no longer a baby, we were making room for another baby.
In any event, I know my son's super excited about having a brand new look for his room. He wants all things Spiderman, he already told me with a huge grin in his face… and that should be enough to make his mami happy too!
Image via Roxana A. Soto
