It's been a while since you've since some of my littles, and you would not believe how they've grown. I wish I had a group photo I could post of the whole lot of them - they're multiplying and growing more quickly than seems normal to me.
Honestly: No Longer Youngest Nephew/Neph2's voice is changing... Cracking in mid sentence so that he looks as confused as the rest of us...it's scary. He's turning 13 in less than a month (which he informs me of on a fairly regular basis), and is all about hockey and baseball right now. Which is better than being all about girls, so I'll take it, even if I couldn't care less about either of those two things.
Oldest Nephew should be trying for his license soon and posted a picture on Instagram of the girl he asked to the Junior Prom. (Remember that bit I said yesterday about someone whose diapers I changed having babies of their own and the unreality of that all? Well I was a junior in high school when Oldest Nephew was born, so that's officially just wrong. ALL KINDS OF WRONG.) I was super sick and missed out on my Junior prom, while SisterS was pregnant with Oldest Nephew, and she called me a couple of days later to commiserate. So yeah: Officially weird and NOT RIGHT.
Lil Girl has always thought (and acted) like she was a teenager anyways, but now she's going to be seven next month, and seven is... no longer little, at least not in my mind. You can't pretend a 7-year-old is a little kid - they're right on the cusp of knowing stuff that little kids don't know, right on the edge of figuring out ways the world works that you wish you could protect them from. She's wise and not always kind (which we're working on) and sassy as all hell, but also sometimes the sweetest thing on two feet.
And Baby B is a big boy now, preparing for preschool and such, which is also... not right? He's the only baby that's been born into our family that I feel like I didn't get a chance to bond with before school started, and that's too bad... hopefully, as he gets older, his mother will bring him down more often.
And SisterCh's Boys - who don't even have proper blog names, I don't think, but have been seen here before: I should Blog Christen them, right, before too long? It's already been so long, I don't even know how that happened. So NephewJ and NephewT (because the numbers just don't work anymore, but I can't go back and undo them) are growing by leaps and bounds as well... one is all over Facebook and skating and guitar playing, the other is into the Marvel Universe and may have been converted to the Dark Side (of always wanting to play games) when Mom and I introduced him to War over Christmas break ;).
And, come the fall, we'll have another Baby (Sex as yet unknown) to add to the our ever-growing clan. It's really exciting to be one of the lucky auntie's to this rag-tag bunch... my brother and sisters have the coolest little people, and I'm looking forward to all the new additions as they come.
Also: Note to self: when the kiddos are down for Spring Break, take group photo, cuz the last one was nearly 3 years ago, and that's just pathetic, y'all.
Also, also: interesting postscript - I don't think I quite realized how much the gender tables have turned in this generation of our family: in my dad's generation it was 7 boys, 2 girls; in my siblings & my generation, girls outnumbered the boys by 2:1 ratio (generally, each of my uncles and my dad had a boy and then at least two girls... any other kids that followed were also girls); but this generation in our family seems to be a complete turn around. Interesting (probably to nobody but me and the few cousins I can chat about genealogy with), but we'll have to see how the pattern evolves as my younger sisters start their families. (And if I ever get around to it.)
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