It Goes By WAY Too Fast

Three years ago I took Emma to Betsy Rhodes Elementary School for Kindergarten Round-Up. We hadn't moved into the big house yet. That night I was sick. I felt miserable the whole time I was signing her up and that night she got Loredana ready for bed-changed a diaper even! Three years....
Tonight I took Loredana to Kindergarten Round-Up. She seemed smaller than my memory of Emma. "You were born older" (name that movie!) It's such a little milestone-being old enough to attend elementary school. I can't believe Loredana is that old. Their little lives just seem to ZIP and suddenly they are older.

I like the ages my kids are now. I play this little game with them telling them they aren't allowed to get any older. I tell Emma she needs to stay seven and Loredana that she needs to stay four. Emma claims she wants to stay nine-when she gets there-because she doesn't want to go to Junior High (smart girl). Loredana keeps reminding me that she IS still four, but I tell her that I can see that she's trying to turn five because she is learning so much about reading and writing and she can do the monkey bars and she can whistle and.......she's going to turn five.
Someday they will all become teenagers and I am not looking forward to that at all. I hope when they are 17 and 14 and 12 that I tell them they have to stay THOSE ages too. I hope I always enjoy them as much as I do right now, it is a real blessing.