Loading tweets...My Kids Are Growing Up So Fast
It’s almost that time. My last child is getting too old for naps and that special time I had with him, snuggling up in the afternoon is finally going to be gone. My favorite part of parenting has always been that feeling of a child curling up on my chest or snuggling next to me and then going to sleep. I don’t know how else to explain it except that it feels like a perpetual hug. At the risk of losing my “Man” card, I wish they could stay little for a lot longer.
My kids are growing so fast. The triplets will be seven in January.
Rose is already wearing some of my wife’s old clothes. She wears Shannon’s t-shirts as jammies and some of her old blouses with a belt or something around the waist. She’s starting to look long and beautiful, a real little lady.
Joseph is no longer the Thomas the Tank Engine loving kid he used to be. Now he’s all about jet airplanes and robotics. I build electronic circuit projects with him and he actually understands what’s going on.
Michael is our little book worm. He reads very well and takes after his mother as far as smarts go. He will be the brainiac of the three.
All of this is cool. It’s amazing to watch them grow and mature. When I first saw it happening in them I comforted myself with, “Well, I still have Matthew for a while longer.”
Now that’s going away too.
He wants to be like his older siblings so badly that he tries to do everything they do. Sometimes he succeeds but mostly it just ends in frustration. It’s very cute to watch, we comfort him and it all works out. He throws the most tantrums but I understand where it comes from. And I see in his eyes the understanding he is acquiring about everything around him and he doesn’t want to be little anymore. At four and a half he’s done with baby toys, tricycles, training wheels and will start t-ball sooner than I can imagine.
Regularly, someone I’m talking to will say, “Hey, pretty soon your littlest one will be going off to Kindergarten and you’ll have all of them in school full time. Wow, you’ll enjoy that!”
I just wish they’d shut up.
3 comments
D.J. Kirkby
December 16, 2011 at 9:54 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It’s lovely how different your four are… I feel sad for you at the inevitable maturation of your babies…any possibility of you and Shannon having another one?
Mommy Daddy
December 18, 2011 at 12:30 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
DJ
Thanks for stopping by. No, we’re done having kids. It’s just one of the things I have to get used to.
tommy riles
March 15, 2012 at 5:34 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hey John,
Great stuff. Our little ones are two years old, and the young one is almost four months old….. so we still have snuggle time with them in the future. Although my daugther (2 year old) is far from cuddly!
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