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| Blowing out the candles with the fam last night |
So today my sweet baby girl is 5 years old. I can't believe it! Five years ago I woke up at 5 am to go to the hospital to be induced. Timothy was 5 years old and it was 3 days before his first day of Kindergarten. I remember being so worried about what he would think seeing me all hooked up to IVs and machines. I worried about how I was going to make sure he wasn't going to feel left out. I struggled with how I was going to be able to love 2 kids the same ammount and the same way, and of course I was worried I wasn't going to be released from the hospital in time to see him on his first day of Big kid school! Seven short hours after I was induced I had my little girl in my arms. I had no idea how I would ever take care of a girl, they are so bossy and snotty and have such attitudes! She was absolutely wonderful and still is! She loves to sing and dance, randomly disrobe and run around the house, oh and she totally has an attitude! She loves make-up and jewelry, yet through all the girly-girl stuff she loves to get dirty, go camping, swimming, hiking, fishing and other boy stuff like that. She is a perfect fit in our family, there isn't a thing she doesn't like that we like;except tomatoes and mushrooms! She is loud and boisterous yet at the same time she is very caring and loving. I was incapeable of imagining how she would be when she could talk and walk, when her personality showed, and I wouldn't change a thing about her; except maybe the like of tomatoes and mushrooms! :o)
Fast forward 5 years, baby is starting Kindergarten in a week, she going to be riding the bus with her big brother and leaving old mom behind. Ya know I pride myself on being strong and in control of my emotions but I secretly have moments where I get that tell-tell lump in my throat and I start getting teary. Shes my baby, my little mini-me that's always by my side and she not gonna be there with me every day anymore. :(
I'm super excited for and with her, but I can't help but think if its this hard sending my baby to school, I can not even fathom whats going to happen when I have to send her off to college or when she gets married! I wish you could just stop time or slow it down just a bit, cause these moments will never happen again and I'm having a hard time letting go.
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| (can't get it to rotate) My baby girl with her new earrings and jewelry box |
Ok thats enough of all the emotional stuff. On the bright side I will actually get one day a week without a child near me! I will get 2 hours a day alone after work before the kids get off the bus! I'm seeing pedicures in my future! My baby girl is 5 years old, a whole hand old today!
Now I hope this kindergarten thing helps prepare me for my sweet first born, smart as a whip handsome son going to middle school next year! I can't believe my kids are this old! I'm off to hug and kiss them now, while they still let me! :o)
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| Her birthday cup cake this morning! |
So the first week of school is over. My baby girl is officially a Kindergartener, and has left mama behind. She loves going to school, and loves riding the bus home with her brother. My baby boy is a fifth grader! Where does the time go? It seems like such a short time ago I was carring him around and helping him do everything! He needs me a little more than his sister does but not very much. He is going to be 11 in September. I can't believe I have a child that old! I couldn't dream of having different children, even through all the sibling fighting and crazy loudness that makes up my house. 
