Growing up

For whatever reason, I have been pretty sentimental this week about the idea of the girls growing up. As much as I know we have so many exciting things ahead of us as they get older and older, I'm a little sad/nostalgic that my babies are indeed becoming less and less of babies every day.

I almost got a little teary in the pool a few days ago playing with Anna. We were playing a flipping game with the pool noodle where I would kind of stabilize her first, and then she would do a flip over the noodle. Everytime I got her stabilized, she would say, "Ok mommy...whenever you're ready, let go!" I just wanted to shout "I'm not ready to let go! I'm not ready!!" :-)

She also got me a little weepy last night when I was putting her to bed. Right before she went to sleep, she leaned her head over against mine and said, "Mommy, did you know that even when I'm all the way grown up, I'll still be your baby?" Oh, the tugs on my heartstrings!!