Growing Like Weeds
The girls are growing like weeds. I wonder how they got to be so big so fast. Not too long ago, I was 22 and heavy with Alex. Now Alex fights me for Xbox time!
Last year, I was 26 and pregnant with Charlie. Today, Charlie wears size 2 of the infants’ clothing range and pigtails. Her yaya told us today she might be teething. She drools enough for three babies and snacks on her fingers all the time.
I don’t know what it is about kids these days but it seems to me they’re all growing much faster than kids did in my time. It won’t be long now before we’ll be feeding Charlie Gerber and Cerelac and signing her up for classes!
A few weeks ago, Alex and I wheeled Charlie around the neighborhood. The snoops that our neighbors are, they flocked to the stroller and oohed and aahed over how big Charlie has grown. “You don’t look like their mom at all!” one said. “You look more like their big sister!”
Truth be told, I mostly feel like their big sister, too. We cuddle, play, and horse about. Alex and I bicker over who gets to hold the remote control, and we shop for books, clothes, and shoes together. I wonder when the hardcore motherhood stuff will enter the picture. Right now, motherhood means sniffing the baby early in the morning, arguing with Alex over her homework (she resents help even if she obviously needs it because to this day she insists a ball is a living thing!), worrying over the girls when they get sick, and sharing my chocolate cereal with a greedy little creature who eats cereals like she eats chips!
Dinner with the hub's not-so-little-anymore brothers
Us, my sister, and the kids' yayas (that girl with the green bag is Alex's yaya and she's trying to avoid the camera hahaha!)
The hub and his girls
Hi! My name is Chin, and this is where, to quote Jane Austen, I "run mad and as often as I choose."
February 11th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
what cute little angels you have, miss chin! i found it pretty curious though how you named your girls with non-traditional tags, boyish names at that – alex and charlie! this reminds me of my mom who gave a feminine second name to me and a masculine name to my sister. so yes, i have to bear wtih allison as my second name and my sister has sean as her’s. talk about parent “power tripping”! lolz!