Random Thoughts

So I sit here reading other blogs about how much our children have grown and am forced to look at my own, Katie will be 10 at the end of this year and already has a cell phone (my own doing). However with the hours her dad works on his weeks with the girls it was a needed device, and while I didn't sign a contract, it still makes me nervous to have so much faith in her usually scatterbrained personality that she might just prove my fears wrong. I am really hoping that she can shock me with her maturity and how to properly handle it. My youngest girl just turned 7 last week and, well what can be said for Josie? She is just Josie. :) I do love that girl, but man can she test my patience daily lol. She decided it was finally time to get her ears pierced, so off we went to Claire's at the mall in Ames, and when they actually do it, she didn't flinch. Not a muscle. She made me so proud, considering she can be a bit chicken-ish at times. Hard to believe that my girls are 7 and 9 already, that's 3rd grade and kindergarten. Then there is Gabe, he is in preschool, and man is he more than ready for kindergarten. After kindergarten round-up he actually told his teacher that he didn't miss her at all that week :( I felt so bad for her. Connor will be 3 this fall, man has time flown for him. Walking, talking (NO! is his favorite phrase), climbing, eating, eating, eating, and just getting into every no-no that he can imagine. He is such a sweetheart too, but man is he ever so feisty. Forrest will be 1 less than 2 months :( Makes me so sad to think that the first and most treasured time with a tiny baby flies by so fast. He has learned to crawl (with a kickstand), now standing in his crib, starting to figure out how to stand with furniture, eating solids (and loving them), he is becoming less and less of a cuddler and more of a "basher" lol. But wow does time fly, I keep telling myself that at some point time has to slow down, for us to try to enjoy each other more, but everyday only seems to go by faster. Seems like it was only yesterday that my first was born, and now we are a family with 5 kids. Amazing how things change in life.