Sarah is growing up. No longer is she a little girl toddling around the house. She doesn’t need my help as much as she once did. She has her own style and personality now.
She has become Sarah.
Though she drives me crazy, she makes me smile even more.
Each day I notice the little changes in her. {What is it about 4? It seems like they just grow up over night.} But this morning as I was washing her hands, it hit me, hard. They have lost the soft, pudginess feel they once had, her little “dimples” can hardly been seen now. Perfect little manicured nails have been replaced by pink fingernail polish. Hands that once could not even hold a little ball, now throw like a pro. Finger that once tried their hardest to snap, can now go a mile a minute. Hands that used to be lifted up while saying, i wanna hold you mommy, have been replaced by hands that now push away while saying, I can do it myself.
This thing called motherhood is not only a fun, and at times stressful ride, it is hard. I never understood the phrase, slowly start letting them go when they are babies, until I became a mom.
The days certainly are long, and the years short.
As much as I want to slow time down, I know that I can’t. And before we know it, David will be walking these girls down the aisle, giving those little hands that we love so much away.
I am me plain & simple
Yeh, time flies and our babies take flight so quickly, don’t they!
Aww! What a sweet post! Time sure has flown by, it seems just like yesterday they were tiny little ones!
Great Post!
You are so right! The days are long but the years are short…what a perfect way to describe it! That helps me be more thankful for these “long” winter days — I should be using them to enjoy kissing my daughter’s pudgy dimpled hands because she’ll be 4 before I know it!
Ok now you have me crying!!! I was just going through baby pictures of Jason today to send to the school for graduation….waaaaaaah!!!
We must think alike!! As I was washing Sophie’s hands today, (She’s 2) I thought about how much I love her pudgy dimply hands!! You are making me cry…sniff, sniff. But it is true that they’ll be grown in the blink of an eye. Enjoy each moment…even the bad ones! LOL!
Waaahhhhh!!! Yes, you are SO right. The days and long and the years so short. Where did our little babies go?
Sarah is beautiful! I really ‘feel’ your post, Hannah is 5 and growing up so fast now, and as hard as it is to let them go, they’ll be babies in our hearts forever xxx
I could help but giggle a bit while reading this precious post of sweet Sarah growing up, while holding an… ipod?!
And yes, I think you were trying to make us cry. They do grow up all too quickly. I miss those dimples and rolls on the arms and legs. Sigh…
“The days certainly are long, and the years short.” Time really does fly, doesn’t it?
Another cute saying I heard once was “When they’re babies, they are so cute you want to eat them up. And when they are older, you wish you had!” LOL
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Having a 16 year old and an 18 year old, I can TOTALLY RELATE!! Sweet post!
Yes, they do grow up MUCH too fast. I can’t even think about Kelsey going off to college in a year and a half without tearing up. Sarah is ADORABLE!!
That is one of my favorite sayings because as a parent it does ring so true. She is so cute.
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