Monday, August 2, 2010

Growing babies

Some people I know are growing babies in their tummys, and that is all well and good but its bloody easy to do! My baby is growing on the outside and it is a lot harder once they get out into the real world and start causing real problems. Soon my baby is going to reach an important milestone. Well two actually. I got to thinking about how big my baby has grown because this weekend one of my nephews turned 5. Five is a big milestone and I remember it well. When Bennett was five he still seemed little, cute, sweet and innocent. Today I took Bennett's applications in so he can enroll in high school! As I drove out of the school parking lot after dropping it off I felt all overcome with emotion, I felt a few tears pricking at the corners of my eyes. My baby will soon turn 13 and he will go to the big bad world of high school! These are BIG milestones. This is much harder to deal with than growing a baby in your tummy or taking your baby to school on the first day. I really feel like the umbilical cord is breaking now, and sometimes that is hard to deal with. He is however, wonderfully unique, weird, interesting, funny, engaging, caring, non communicative, messy, smelly, an amazing story teller and loving - maybe the progression away from small, cute and innocent isn't so bad.

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  1. I'm sure that he will make his mother proud.

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  2. I've never had a baby in my tummy, apart from baby lambs and baby cows. They were delcious.

    I always look back on my kids infancy, between 2 and 4 as the best times. Just as they start to display a real personality and can communicate coherently, but before they start to say NO too often.

    Enjoy Bennett.

    Give him a hug.

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  3. Second is attacking dragons - something that you Welsh folks should be aware of.

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  4. Indeed, plus my Chinese star sign is Dragon. A double whammy for me

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  5. I didn't know you had Chinese blood Fflur?

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  6. Snap. My Chinese birth year is dragon too. I used to think that was a good thing until I realised that Richard's was as well.

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  7. I'm the year of the cock. Unfortunate for one as sanctimonious as me.

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