A LOT has happened this past month with Jake and Phoebe. Not really things out of the ordinary - but just all at once... This biggest being Jake has finished preschool and is ready to enter Kindergarten this fall.
Now, this transition has been infinately easier for him than I, of course. He simply was excited to have such fun end of the year activities: Crazy Hair Day, PJ Day, Water Day and Bowling Day all ended with his very official Graduation Day - caps and gowns included. He thought it was so much fun to dance down the aisle while "Are you Ready to Rumble??!!" blasted through the speakers...and it was all the 18 kids could do, sitting still through the slide show and speeches, because there were CUPCAKES waiting for them!! Meanwhile, all the mommies in the audience were using Kleenex in abudance watching the same slideshow and listening to the speeches about how grownup their 5 yr olds were now...and feeling a mixture of pride and sadness that their little one was now not so little. You WANT them to get big...but not too fast. And today I went and toured his gradeschool and met one of four teachers who will continue to guide him next year...and was glad that I had 2 1/2 months to get ready for that!
And probably making it all a bit harder is that Phoebe is hitting a growth stride herself....Miss Mobility has taken to rolling herself hither and yon all over the living room and I found her in the beginning stages of crawling yesterday. It is only a matter of days and weeks now, I think. She gets so mad at being left behind in a room, and moves so quickly in so many other ways....that she is channeling that energy into figuring out how to get her legs under her and GO!!
She has also sprouted two teeth. Two little razor sharp pearls on her bottom gum. Two little razor sharp pearls that she enjoys burrowing into my shoulder...with glee. And she shows them off - a big, big grin with her bottom jaw stuck out - she is so proud of those two teeth!!
I love that my kiddos are going through these stages...we WANT them too. We want them to grow up, to keep making strides in learning and doing...but we still want them to stay little. It wasn't SO long ago that Jake was sprouting his first teeth, learning to crawl, learning to talk... And now he is ready to start his path into grade school - the first of so many steps without Mommy. And Phoebe will keep cruising through this year of firsts: after crawling, walking and talking will follow.
So I am going to enjoy this summer. With my delightful, fun, giggling, loud, slightly chaotic, soon to be moving, and always changing children.
