In the Blink of an Eye

Mommy is feeling a bit nostalgic tonight.  She says it hit her after this very busy week/weekend that in a blink of an eye her girls are growing up.  Take, for instance, the fact that I started my first swimming lessons this week.  Mommy didn't have to get in the water with me.  In fact, she sat in a different room and watched through the glass window as I jumped into the pool, stuck my head under the water and showed how I can float on my back.  The instructors were so impressed with me and they told mommy they couldn't believe how well I do in the water for a 4 year old!
I also had my first Upward game Saturday morning.  Mommy watched as I made new friends, practiced my dance and did all my cheers out on the gym floor.  She saw me go pull people out of their seats for the chicken dance.  She watched me shouting chants into my megaphone.  She saw me try to comfort another cheerleader who was scared to be on the floor without her mommy.
Then today mommy watched me at my first real kids birthday party.  I went to the bowling ally, played with the other kids and did a really great job (not needing my mommy to help me with the little stuff she used to help me with).  When the kids passed around a bowling pin to sign our names on for the birthday boy, mommy watched as I wrote my name all by myself and didn't even have to pause to think about it.
Tonight was the last straw.  On the way home from Kidz Zone I told daddy about what we'd learned.  I said, "We learned a verse, too."  Mommy just looked over at daddy because she knew that the verse had been a very long one and we only spent a couple of minutes on it tonight and a couple of minutes last week.  She thought I might remember a word or two, but she didn't expect me to remember much past that.  But, in true Lynley-shocking-my-mommy-form, I told daddy the verse.  "This is the confidence we have in approaching God; that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us.  And if we know that He hears us- whatever we ask-we know that we have what we asked of Him.  1 John 5:14-15."  Sometimes mommy doesn't really think that I am paying attention and once in a blue moon she wonders if I am really ready for Kidz Zone.  But, I think after this evening, she has no doubt in her mind that I am growing up so very quickly...and in the blink of an eye I am becoming a truly big girl.
And we can't leave Myla out of this post.  She has gone from no teeth to four teeth.  She has gone from the army crawl to standing straight up and only holding on to something with one hand.  She is growing up, too.  Soon she'll have a sippy cup figured out and she'll be walking all around!
We're growing up!!  While mommy is excited to see what happens next, tonight she is wondering how to slow the process down just a bit!