Some part of me will probably measure Westley's age in months forever. He was born on the first of December, so it's hard, when a new month rolls around, not to think, Westley's another month old today. On the other hand, I feel like I'm starting to sound ridiculous when I tell people how many months old Westley is."What is he, about two? Two-and-a-half?" the guy at the fruit market asks.
"Not quite. He'll be 21 months on September 1st."
See? Clunky. Rob has side-stepped this problem completely by telling people, "He'll be two in December."
So are we really at that point? The point where we give the "two-in-December" answer as opposed to the "20-months-and three-weeks" answer? I feel like maybe, by not reading the What To Expect books, I missed learning the proper parental etiquette on this one.
We're certainly out of the stage where the changes from one month to the next are clearly visible in (zillions of) photographs. But when I reflect on the past four weeks, a lot has changed for Westley, the least of which is his hair length. He had his first real separation from me, and his first bout of vomiting. He uses a fork and a spoon easily (when he wants to). He speaks in sentences occasionally. It's crazy.I feel as though I'm not so much counting up months, as counting down to two. Paving the way and preparing myself for the inescapable fact that my son--my tiny, baby son--is going to be two in December. Two!
But on the issue of answering the question, "how old is he?" I need my fellow babymamas to school me: when did you stop measuring your child's age in months? At what point does it still seem relevant, and at what point does it start sounding ridiculous?
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Before I got pregnant, the thought of counting anything in weeks...then months was so odd to me.
Everytime someone told me how many weeks pregnant they were, or how many months old their baby was...I felt like I had to do math, ha!
Now I have to add to it Alexa's corrected age vs. her real age. ARGH!!!!
I'm with you, at 2...I think is long enough for all the counting. Then you can just say "he just turned 2...or he's 2 and half, or he's almost 3".
I'm just about done with it now. I was just thinking about this the other day as Luna approaches 18mos. I think I'll just say one and a half, almost two, etc. from October on. Even now I get blank stares from people when I say she's 17mos. Means nothing to them. If I say, almost one and a half, they can grasp it.
Our month counting stopped a few months before Julian turned 2. It seems that people without children have a really hard time doing month math quickly in their heads. So it was just easier to say, "He'll be 2 in a few months."
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I usually stopped around two years old. Westley and I share a birthday! I'm 429 months old, btw, unless I've done the math incorrectly, which is very possible.
It was a bit after 2 with our older son, a bit before 2 with the younger one. By about 2 it seems the only people for whom age in months means anything remotely useful is other parents, and they usually have a good idea of a child's age anyway just from experience.
I found it was the same way with weeks early on-so hard to give up the weeks measurement because it didn't seem possible my wee baby could be months old. My mind about blew when we had to officially start calling him a kindergartener last year...
When my 7 year old was almost three, she walked in on us going at it... FULL ON. My husband was standing and I was lying back on the bed, and she cheerfully called, "Good Daddy! You're changing Mommy!"
I lost track of his months around 20/21 so I just started saying, "He's almost two," then. Now it's, "He'll be two in October."
Incidentally, Westley and Hollis are 7 1/2 weeks apart. Or should I say, "2 months"??
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