My children are growing too fast
Posted by mom2mom on September 20, 2009
I realized this weekend, again, that my children are growing too fast. My oldest, Melissa, is 6, and yesterday my husband took the training wheels off her bike. I know age 6 is not prodigious for going 2-wheels only, but I still feel so proud of her. She took to balancing on her bike so quickly, and I’ve watched her this afternoon riding in the driveway like she’s been doing it all along. I didn’t take to balancing on 2 wheels so well when I was a kid. I asked my son, Joshua, who’s 4 now, if he’s ready to ride without the training wheels and he said no. I’m pretty sure it won’t take long for him to change his mind though. Now if I can get the twins potty trained, that’s one milestone I’ll be SOOOO glad to get through. I will NOT miss the days of diapers. I DO miss when they were cuddly little bundles small enough to rest in each of my husband’s hands (except Joshua, he wasn’t quite that tiny), and they would coo and grunt and nuzzle our necks. I miss when they would nurse their fill and look punch drunk. I miss the days when there were no socks and shoes small enough to stay on their feet. I miss Melissa vocalizing “eeeeeee,” “eeeeeee” trying to talk to us when she was only a few months old. I miss feeling them move in my belly when I was carrying each of them. I miss experiencing the moments right after each of them was born.
But I have many more milestones to look forward to. The twins sleeping in big girl beds, then going to the potty on their own. My son and the twins riding their bikes without training wheels. Each of them reading to me instead of me reading to them. More days of no front teeth. Watching them become their own persons. Teaching them about Jesus and the ways of the Lord, then watching them grow in faith. Then PUBERTY and the TEENAGE years (well, I’m not sure I look forward to that period, but I’m hopeful that time in their upbringing will ultimately prove to be very rewarding and we’ll all look back on those years with fondness).
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