MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

My Babies Turn 13...

I can hardly believe that my two oldest children, DD and DS, my 4.5 lb incubator babies, turned 13 on August 3rd. Obviously, what everyone has always said is true-- kids grow up fast, before you know it, despite the fact that in the preschool years it seems like it will never end! (My sister is in that phase now with 3 kids 5 and under, and I hear that in her voice all the time!). I think the incredible speed-up happens when they get to school. The months of the school year just zip on by-- you buy the school supplies and before you know it, winter break is upon you. You blink and then it is Memorial Day.

So hear I am with two lovely, charming and exasperating new teens. Just now I heard DS get up in the morning and ask DD if she was awake yet in his newly deep voice. He is just a pinch away from being taller than me, seems all long and gangly in arms and legs, with shoulders getting all sturdy. And all the zits that come with the territory. Sigh-- he was my little happy baby, the first to smile and laugh, the little boy who climbed everything very skillfully, not recklessly. When we drag out the old videos, he has this sweet little baby voice, full of questions. And now he talks to me endlessly of his favorite computer games, his eyes still excited and voice deep and low.

DD was our little kitten baby, with the tiniest cries at first. While we called her brother "Linus" for his mellowness, we called her "Lucy" because of her more forceful, self-assured personality, evident from the start! She was the toddler with a head full of brown curls, the girl who loved playing in water, and now she is so happy to go swimming, especially in lakes where she can search for rocks to add to her collection. She is amazingly creative, doing alot of self-learning on the computer to incorporate all sorts of new stuff onto her web page. And she has started her puberty journey with her curvy body, period, hair that needs to be washed every other day, and of course, the zits.

We haven't hit the real snags of teen attitude yet with either of these two-- a few outbursts, but we've worked through them. It is truly a new phase, and even though I'm sad to leave the other stages behind, I am excited to see what will happen with them. They are growing closer to who they will be as grown-ups. What will they do with these lives?

And at least I still have my other baby, 9 yr old DS, to hang out in Kid Land with.

Posted by sapphire at August 5, 2004 09:35 AM