Wow. I’m there already. I now have a teenager. Older women told me it would go fast. It always seemed to be when one of them was holding my leg screaming that they wanted some useless toy and smearing snot all over my jeans. That is when these women (I know now to give me encouragement) would choose to tell me to enjoy this time because it goes so fast. I’d look at them and think “Good! I want this part to go fast.” But now I just want to slam on the breaks! Sigh.
For my daughter’s birthday, she wanted to get together her neighborhood friends and have photos taken. We all (missed you I and G!) went down to the Kirkland waterfront and the girls loved being photographed! Here are some of my favorites from the our time together –
Afterward we gathered for ice cream bars by the water. The whole birthday party cost me $12.18! And they all loved it! I’m so proud of G for thinking of it. I’m also proud of her for giving up her birthday for Charity Water. It’s not easy for kids to do that! Can I please still call her a kid?!!
Happy Birthday Bean! I love you ever so much.
It turns out,I am invincible. I should be dead from this post because seeing G with all her friends and everyone looking so grown up made my heart to this shrivel SLASH explode thing? It’s very possible, though it sounds impossible and i should be dead from it but here I type on. Anyway, I miss you every single day, G and I’m so glad I get to spend more of your birthday with you this weekend. I hope you know how perfectly wonderful you are and how much I love you. It’s infinity. That’s how much. So there! All my love, muggs
So sad Iz had to miss. Those are awesome pics!
It didn’t even occur to me that one of the girls in those photos could be YOUR daughter….they are all so gorgeous and GROWN UP. Geez. And I spent this morning weepy in the car dropping E off for school again. Is this how it is now, forevermore? Is this what I signed up for? Cause it’s awesome, but it also pulls hard on the heart.