milestones

We lowered the mattress in Jonathan's crib yesterday. In my naive mind there are three makers that distinguish between a "little" baby and a "big" baby: sitting up on own, sleeping in a crib at the lower setting, and crawling. So, along with his 7 month birthday this past week, lowering the matress is freaking me out. I guess I thought we would never get to this point. All summer I would read about/talk to mothers who had 7, 8 or 9 month old babies and I would think "I have nothing in common with this woman- Jonathan is a little baby and 7-9 month olds are big" Sort of the way poodles are little dogs and great danes are big dogs. And now that my little baby is becoming a big baby it is dawning on me that he will, in fact, become a toddler and then a little boy and then a boy and then a teenager..... And that I probably have a lot more in common with mothers of 5 year olds than I think!!