My mom and I just read this one together and are both crying.  My mom said she misses how much I use to need her.  The thing is I may be 24 but I still need her, just in different ways now.

I'm totally crying right now. My son is growing so quickly. His smells are changing from that little baby smell (you described it so perfectly) to rambunctious pre-toddler. He smells of his shampoo and detergent (desitin too sometimes), but also of baby sweat and the cheese flavored snacks he so loves to eat. He smells of cheerios and those random bits of food he gets in his hair.

But always, ALWAYS, buried underneath various food odors and perfumes, is that intoxicating odor that is Spencer's and only Spencer's. The smell that has been with him the first few seconds after he was born, and the smell that I'm sure I'll be able to pick up on after he's 16 and has just come in the door from basketball practice (after he's showered, of course).

Though my son is still a baby, I miss the way he would melt into me like I was all he ever needed to settle down and go to sleep. He still does it on a rare occasion, but there is NOTHING in the world like having your baby fall asleep peacefully on your chest.

I miss the way my son used to "let" me hold him. As a baby, he would sit oh-so-still... staring into my eyes and feeling my face... Now, he's like a Mexican jumping bean and fidgets whenever he's on my lap. I imagine the day is coming soon when I'll have to BEG for a kiss before I drop him off at school. :(

I also miss that sweet, soft baby-fur on the back of his little neck and shoulders. *dreams*

My son is a wild little cowboy at 18 months old.  I miss the warm sleepy smell when he used to get up in the night to nurse.  That delicate combination of milk, Johnsons's lotion, our laudnry detergent, and the sweetness of baby skin.  As he'd lay with me at night, I'd always hold him long after he'd fallen back asleep.  Sometimes I'd just lay back in the chair and sleep too.  I never minded getting up with him because I knew that those days would be gone all too fast.  I cherished those few moments when we could almost melt into one another as one being, the way we were before he was born.  He's now his own little person, with smelly little boy feet and dirty little boy hands, and the mischievous grin of a curious, rowdy, and altogether wonderful kid.  But, oh, I remember how he was my tiny baby and I was the world he knew.  

@BellaNeiSogni@xanga - Oh so sweet.  :)  Mine still tells me "love you" every day when he's getting out of the car for school, and he makes sure I get a hug goodnight every night, even if he's staying at his dad's house that night.

@KimisBarbie@xanga - Have you read the book "Love you Forever"?  I'm totally that stalker mom.  Haha!

@VenusSoVain@xanga - This is so beautiful.  :)

@where_are_my_fritos@xanga - I'm so glad!!

@KimisBarbie@xanga - Lol!

This was so sweet to read.