Dammit, I know it's cliche, but they really do grow up too fast.

[Bouncy Ball]

Shortly after my daughter turned 10, I went into her room after she was asleep to make sure the blankets covered her. As I felt for her feet, I realized her legs went on and on and on and on, and I was amazed at how far down on the bed her feet were. When did she get so impossibly tall?

I covered her up, sat on the edge of her bed and sobbed. And that's so not like me. I handled her first birthday FINE. I took her to her first day of school like a champ. No problemo. Teeth falling out didn't phase me, first haircut was great.

But this edging closer and closer to middle school thing, I can't stand. Because I figured it all out---it starts off really slowly. Those baby days just D-R-A-G by.

Then it speeds up, faster and faster every year. And now we're on a collision course with adolescence, then I'm going to turn around and poof! She'll be gone.

(I know what you parents of older/adult kids are thinking: "Yeah, if you're LUCKY." LOL)

When I was a kid and adults said "You're growing up SO FAST!" I'd think "No I'm NOT! It took about a MILLION YEARS to get to be 11!"

They were right, though.

[WindRavenX]

1. I think when I have kid(s)...

...watching them grow up is gonna be real hard on me, for the reasons you have listen ;(

[Bouncy Ball]

3. All of my girlfriends bawled their eyes out when their kids

turned one, turned two, started kindergarten. And I didn't. I thought something was wrong with me.

I've decided it's just that I KNEW she was still a kid, so it was ok.

It's going to get harder and harder to tell myself "well she's still little" from here on out.

She's my only, by the way. I don't know if that makes it harder or what, but once she's gone, that's it.

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. Just the other day, I noticed

That my daughter's legs had gotten way longer. No longer is she my "shortie". She just turned 9, I feel your pain.

[Bouncy Ball]

4. I think the legs get longer first, then the rest of the body catches up

because my daughter looks like a little torso on stilts right now. My dad used to call them "colt legs."

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. I like that

It's funny, really. She's always been so petite, so tiny...I noticed that a pair of jeans that usd to be too long suddenly fit her rather well. I just kept staring at her legs....where did those come from???

[BrklynLiberal]

6. The older we/they get, the faster it goes...

and we remember it all like it was yesterday, and they don't remember it all.
I talk to my son about something that happened when he was four, and he says "Ma, how old was I?" and I say "You were four!" He says, "You expect me to remember that?"
I don't understand..I remember it so clearly!

EDIT: Did I mentnion that he was just 34? Pretty soon we are going to be the same age!

[Daphne08]

7. My youngest is a senior in college now, and he moved away

from home (for good) when he married a couple of years ago.

I'm still in 'empty nest mode.'

Cherish and enjoy them while they're at home, for they will be grown and gone in the blink of an eye, and you'll soon be left wondering, "Where did all those years go?"

[Bouncy Ball]

8. ...

:cry: :cry: :cry:

I'm taking more pictures lately....