rolling, rolling, rolling

today little m did her first roll
from back to belly

both erk and i missed the first time it happened. he was attaching some wires to the thermostat and i was in the kitchen doing something (most likely eating?) when he called out "did you put her down on her back or on her belly?" i ran over to see. she was definitely on her belly, not really complaining, but a foot over from where i had left her a couple of minutes before.... definitely on her back.

i flipped her over onto her back again and this time watched with erk what happened next.
she arched her spine and turned her head to her left, she lifted her legs up so that she was fully on her side with her left arm somewhat caught underneath her. and then, with effort and intention and what seemed to be a force of thousands of years of human evolution she flipped over onto her belly and even wiggled her left arm out from under her.

like an overexcited child i called out "again!' and placed her on her back once more and grabbed erk's smart phone to record the moment.  and she repeated, exactly, what she had performed only moments before. her body's muscles had already committed the series of movements to memory.

gleaming with pride i emailed the compressed video off to all parents and siblings on both sides of the family with the caption "no more napping on mom and dad's bed!"

later, after watching the 30 second video almost a dozen times, still full of pride, i started to have another sensation, one i could not yet identify. i suddenly felt time going by so very quickly, it made me feel nostalgic (?!).

the video only confirmed this sensation by virtue of it's nature to "capture" a moment. but each moment seems to be gone just as it is arriving. i feel this more with these mini-milestones in little m's life than with anything else. and because i am unable to fully describe or understand my own feelings, i am trying to roll with them...what else can we do on a sphere that has been spinning and rotating for billions of years?