Kid advice

The last few days it seems there has been a lot of talk about babies. We have 4 pregnant women in our church right now. Two of them are due the end of Oct. (We had a baby shower for one of those women yesterday, which I'll get to later.) The other 2 are pretty newly pregnant. Amy has three boys already, I think she might be hoping for a girl this time. The other couple I am extremely excited about their pregnancy because they had to go through some fertility treatments to achieve this pregnancy, and they have been trying for a while.
At the shower yesterday, two experienced moms gave the new mother to be little words of advice for mothering. One of the things they both said was, "Enjoy every minute and every age because it goes by SO fast." I heard that a lot when I was first pregnant with Truitt, and I took the advice kind of threw out the part about it going by fast. Well, I soon came to realize that it really does go by fast. Before I knew it Truitt was 6 months old and we found out we were pregnant again. Then I blinked and Ephraim was already here. Now he is already 6 weeks old! It's crazy how quickly (especially in the first year of life) how much children change, learn, and grow. Ephraim is just learning to hold up his head, while Truitt (only 15 months older) is running, climbing, learning animal noises and can say several words.
The other very wise word of advice was "Everything is a stage." Meaning when the kid is leaking though his daiper every night, or can't seem to figure out how to drink from a sippy cup and is upset about it, or in my case won't listen when you tell him to come here. It's a stage. It will pass, and as we have already stated it goes by fast. It may not seem fast while walking through it, but it passes quickly.
So words of wisdom for those of you who are planning on having kids, or an encouragement to those that already do, decide now that you will cherish every moment of every age and remind yourself of that commitment often (it helps when you are in one of those frustrating stages).