As all of you know, I have started a new job! Well really a new career, if you will. I am a full-time nanny to a little girl, who is right around 23 months. This has turned out to be a wonderful experience for me. I am seeing first hand how fast babies learn and how truly different people parent! I am also watching my sweet, baby boy grow up into a handsome little boy! As much as a blessing it is to watch him grow, it is truly heart breaking that he is growing so fast. He no longer looks like a baby, he is looking more and more like a toddler boy with everyday that passes. He is learning to share with V, and I must say he is doing a pretty good job at it! While I watch Noah grow, I also get the pleasure of watching another family's baby girl grow into a pretty little girl. She is learning to share, like Noah. But more importantly, she learning how to speak, like Noah as well. See her and her mother spent the past summer in the Czech Republic visiting family, and they only spoke Czech to her. At first this made our communication quite difficult, but now she is teaching me, just as I am teaching her English, she is teaching me Czech. With everyday that passes, I learn more Czech!
I have always been told that everyone parents differently!! Well I am seeing this all 1st hand. Everyone does everything at their own pace, I guess. We took the bottle away at 10 months, V still has hers. Noah sleeps in his crib and goes to bed by himself, V sleeps with her parents on a mattress on the floor! We have disciplined Noah for quite sometime, V is just now getting discipline (from me) for the 1st time! Different? yes. Eye opening? definitely! This has turned out to be an awesome experience for me! I absolutely would not trade this for anything!
...this is life as we know it!
