How was Soren ever this little?

People say your kids grow up too fast ... but when you have a little kid and a busy life, sometimes it seems that things are abhorrently slow - everyone with kids has been in that place where you need to go or stop or whatever and your kid is just taking forever to do something super simple and short ...

But in perspective, things do move too fast. Even with only the small amount of perspective we have now - I mean Soren is going to be 2 years old in just about 2 weeks - it is shocking how fast things go by ...

I mean I look at some of these photos, I see him almost fitting into one hand - and now he is ginormous, almost 35 pounds of wound up, wild and crazy baby, or more appropriately toddler because a) he toddles and b) he is really not a baby anymore, not when he tells us that pistachio shells are inedible or that the pinwheels are hibernating and that he cannot find the moon because it is playing hide and go seek with him. It is crazy to hear him articulate these concepts, because our entire experience with him has been of him wanting to express things and not be able to do it. Honestly, I cannot wait for more language because he is such an interesting little guy ... I cannot wait to hear what he thinks of next.

Still, I look at all of these pictures of him and just wonder how he could ever have been this small ...