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. - She’s pretty brainy. At the end of grade one she was proud to get five A’s on her report card. The other night
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.