Exploring the whole wide world and we will start in the kitchen

We were at Mother’s market the other day getting some fun grocery items for Naddie in the baby isle when two women directed their attention to Naddie as we passed them by. They were also shopping baby stuff but did not have their babies with them. Naddie as always smiled at them and waived at them and finally blew a kiss to each of them.
Of course they were uh-ah about it but one of them said something I think we all feel but might not admit to. She said: “Oh, I can not wait for mine to start doing things like that. She is only 7 months right now though.”
I had to reply to that with: “I know what you mean, but all this new and cute stuff comes with other new and sometimes frustrating things. Enjoy every stage she will go through!” And than we walked a way.
I used to feel that way. I don’t anymore. I learned that I have to enjoy the NOW because nobody can turn the time back when I realize that all that “other” time was just as wonderful and enjoyable. I already miss some stages we have passed. I do think they are equally wonderful and difficult at the same time. I think it’s all up to how you look at it and what you make of it.
Naddie is just becoming such an individual little being. She is studying everything around her. She is becoming very independent in many ways.
She will take the spoon or fork from me while eating (sometimes even feeds me), she tells me when she had enough of anything (she is really good of using her sign language skills), she likes to brush her teeth by herself, she will bring me her shoes to put them on or give her clean diaper to change and she loves to guide you to the kitchen cabinet to show you what she wants to snack on. And I could go on, but I am sure you get the picture.
Of course this brings some frustration, because she does not like if I don’t let her be as self-sufficient as she wants to be.