1. Start out itty bitty...pretty safe bet tears will fall.
2. Roll Over, sit on your own, speak, grow teeth, walk
3. Begin to have your own ideas, opinions, ways of expressing your self
4. Start asking to go places on your own, spend the night somewhere else
5. Start school
6. Come home talking about all your friends
7. Come home talking about girls/boys...not just friends
8. Ask to borrow the car
9. Ask to borrow the car for a date
10. Aske to borrow the car for a date to the prom
11. Come home with college applications
12. Come home to a college acceptance letter/letters
13. Graduate from college
14. Find a good job
15. Find that certain someone
16. Make mom a grandmom
All that leads to one simple phrase....growing up. No mom wants to admit that their babies aren't babies anymore. No matter how hard we try, we can't make the kids stay little forever, and for the most part mom's look forward to the kids getting older, but at the same time, when that last one hits that milestone of starting school, then there are no more babies. It makes your heart ache to know that once upon a time this little itty bitty chubby cheeked little helpless person looked up at you with this endearing love and trust, and then one day they look down at their own children and experience the same feelings. For now I will squeeze the boys extra tight tonight when they are tucked into bed and enjoy them being little.
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