August 07, 2007> 9:21 AM
my katey is growed up I'm just getting around to it, but yesterday, August 6th, was my oldest daughter Katey's 18th birthday. Oh my. I don't even know what to say really. I think I'm in shock. That, and she's going to College a couple of weeks! I'm having a way harder time, internally, with all this that I ever expected. I love my Katey. She is my first-born child. As it goes with first-borns in multiple child families, we parents tend to remember more details about their younger years.
Some things I remember (I probably shouldn't do this because it's going to make me cry but here goes):
She looked like a boxer who lost a fight when she first came out. Katey was what we call "sunny side up" and had a fight with a pelvic girdle on her way into the outside world - big scrape on her head and a bent up nose. She got better.
She laughed a lot when she was a baby and loved singing.
She rolled before she crawled - yes, rolled from one side of the room to the other, ha!
She had a bald spot on the back of her head for quite a while from wearing the hair off shaking her head back and forth in the crib.
I remember the first time she showed up next to our bed, from the crib bed she had climbed out of! aaagghh! Time for a "big girl bed."
Poor Katey had sinus problems her whole young childhood and always sounded like she had a cold when she talked. It was kinda cute really.
She was very very girly when she was little - that was before Vans, black t-shirts and green streaks in her hair.
She has always been very smart - still is. What can I say? She had to inherit something from me! :)
OK, that's enough of that - I can't handle it any more. So, happy birthday Katey. I love you very much. I can't help that I'm a little scared for you. This whole "letting go" thing is very very hard for me. God have mercy on me and help me handle this well.
August 07, 2007
> 9:21 AM
I'm just getting around to it, but yesterday, August 6th, was my oldest daughter Katey's 18th birthday. Oh my. I don't even know what to say really. I think I'm in shock. That, and she's going to College a couple of weeks! I'm having a way harder time, internally, with all this that I ever expected. I love my Katey. She is my first-born child. As it goes with first-borns in multiple child families, we parents tend to remember more details about their younger years.
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