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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
day 10 - look mom, no hands
"Enjoy these days when they're small; they grow up so fast."
It's probably the number-one most-repeated cliché connected with parenting -- and the reason for that is that it is completely, 100%, undoubtedly true. Each time a more experienced parent says it to a younger one, the intensity of the truth is there behind the words, completely inexpressible. It's something you can't fully understand until you've been there yourself -- that bittersweet, near-panicky feeling of it's going by too fast oh please slow down oh please.
So. I present to you my boy, who has been transformed in such a breathlessly short time from the needy, squeaky-voiced, boisterous, exuberant five-year-old who discovered by accident that he didn't need his training wheels anymore, into this great hulking man-child who rides his fifteen-speed confidently with no hands, slipping away a little closer to manhood with every turn of the pedals.
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Aw shucks
Posted by: jenn at July 10, 2007 08:33 PM
