Babyhood is so fleeting, most parents feel like they're grasping at the precious moments of their baby's childhood. In the blink of an eye, a newborn baby is suddenly eating solid foods, then they're walking, then all of a sudden they're asking you if they can borrow the car for the weekend. What happens to time? That's why it's so important for every parent to be a part of their baby's firsts—because that first experience can never be retrieved again, making it all the more priceless.
Witnessing a baby's first-anything is an amazing moment.
The first time a baby eats ice cream, the moment a baby meets their furbaby companions, or the first time a baby walks can be a pivotal parenting accomplishment that will live on in their hearts forever. Firsts are very important, and it's rare to witness them in real life and even rarer to capture them on film, but this mom accidentally scored the motherhood lottery while filming a momtok video, capturing her 9-month-old baby's first steps on video.
Keep scrolling for the adorableness that went viral when a mom's chore day turned into the most exciting moment in her life. Because when you're a mom, your baby's accomplishments, no matter how small they seem, will live rent-free in your heart forever.
After this, here's another motherhood tale about a 3x mom who gets snippy in the family group chat after her SIL tries to give her birthing advice mid-contraction.