I admit with some shame that when my twins were born, for
the first months all I could think about was how long it would be until they
turned 18 and left for college. I didn’t realize that in fact once the “blur
years” were over, it would get fun much faster.
Now they are turning 7 and, like every parent when a
birthday comes around, I wonder how it passed so quickly. How the nursing and
bottle feeding turned into eating sub sandwiches. How the diaper changing
turned into locking the bathroom door to do their business. How the tottering
turned into dreams of flying. How the scribbles turned into Chinese and English
words
I think too of the (positive) things that haven’t changed. The
laughs. The smiles. The need for mama. The dirty knees. The spaghetti, and
chocolate, faces. Ethan the adrenaline junkie and artist with a love of drawing
and dancing and a stubborn streak I don’t know where he got. Isaac the fearless
sports player so eager to please and to be a big kid.
