Big kid beds are sweet, and not sweet like daisies and sun-dresses on 3 year old girls, sweet like, Jack Bauer really made Chloe shoot him in the chest. It is a big deal, it is crazy when it happens and just like me when I saw the last episode of 24, Coop started jumping on the bed, playing with his Buzz and Woody toys, and even peed a little.
Transitions continue to happen in the Anderson home, and they are phenomenal. Cooper is getting used to his bed by laying it in before nap time and bed time, reading books, in bed with mom and dad and occasionally taking a nap.
What I have realized since becoming a dad is that your kids are in a constant state of change and transition. A day doesn't go by when I am not amazed at something one of my boys does. For example I got a picture sent to me yesterday of Micah being a big kid and supporting himself, holding his head up, he looks like a stud, I know.
Cooper was this old not long ago, he was vomiting and looking cute doing it, now if Cooper vomits it not only is really not cute, it is cause for concern.
The transitions that our boys make also causes me to have to protect my boys in different ways. I want my boys growing up taking risk but two days ago Cooper was rocking on a rocking chair backwards when he almost fell off the back and cracked his head on the most vicious coffee table ever created.
I don't have to worry about rocking chairs with Micah yet, right now my main concern is putting enough pillows on the couch so he doesn't roll off the side.
This turned into me throwing all of my thoughts onto the page, so take from it what you will, but I will end with this.
As Christians and beyond that as humans in order to grow we need to be in a constant state of transition, it doesn't have to be with our kids, it doesn't have to be with a new job our spouse, it needs to be in deciding to go a new direction with your life and going in that direction.
Most of us have broken our New Year Resolutions by now and that's okay, but transition is what grows us and makes us who we truly are. Transition and enjoy the ride.
Look back at your life what are some of the hardest transitions you have ever had to make?
1 comment:
Mind is blown... it is super hard to write with a blown mind... beep beep 101010111100
(I just started speaking in computer if you didnt catch that, and yes that is binary code... all to play off of your sweet joke in the post)
The Christian life is a "constant state of transition." If we are not growing, moving, or transitioning we are living a life that states that we are okay... but Christ lived a life that directly and significantly opposed that notion. We are not okay. God does not think we are okay at all. He sees us for what we really are without him - enemies of his plan to restore the world back to its original purpose of peace and wholeness and love.
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