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Not where, but how.

I guess it happens to most of us, but sometimes I feel a bit sad reflecting on how the days have passed and somehow many of my girl’s development stages just flew by, without me taking much note of them. Stuck in the daily grind of just trying getting through a day, I forget that my girls only just learned how to verbally express their feelings or that they don’t make a fuss any more when I leave them at playschool.

I got a real shock this morning when I was playing with one of my girls and realised her leg is as long as she was when she was born. Duh! I know, but it came as a bit of a shock to me.

The development stages of the first year just seem to flow into each other, and I keep thinking my girls have always been the age they are now. I can not fathom how some mothers remember exactly when their children got their first tooth, started crawling or took their first step. I’m totally lost when it comes to the tooth and the crawling. I vaguely remember their first solo steps around nine months…or was it ten months? And I only, sort of, remember because it seemed a bit early.

Again, as with most things, I always blame it on the fact that they are twins. Although, on this occasion, I do believe it is justifiable. To be honest the first year with the girls is a bit of a haze. Just when you had things figured out, a new development came along and you had to deal with it, twice fold. There was no time to think or plan ahead, you just took a day at the time. I did enjoy it though, but sometimes it is true that my husband came home after a hard day to three crying women. Sure, feel sorry for him.