My youngest child is eight!! How can that be? Nearly three thousand days on this planet?? As I come to grips with this let me share with you some of the things I want to always remember about her at this age: - She has a crush. She wouldn’t tell me for ages who it was but Ollie knew and was sworn to secrecy which is super cute. Plus I knew pretty early on anyway thanks to her writing his name all around the place with love hearts around it. - She makes this makes this weird cat noise – like a hissing meow. It’s sometimes accompanied by a strange claw like gesture and usually when she doesn’t like something that you’ve done. Everyone who has ever heard it agrees that it’s REALLY annoying. Conversely she has a high pitched squeak like a guinea pig when she is happy about something. Basically she is just a small animal. - ...
We used to be two, then we became three. Now we find ourselves with four. Hold onto your hats because this is going to be a wild ride.