Two Times is Better Than One...I hope! :)

I borrowed a friend's video camera for awhile, and well, ended up keeping it for a loooong time. But, that's not the point. What I'm trying to write about is the fact that I found an old home video from 2004 and popped it in just yesterday.

I knew the big girls were on it, so we snuggled on the couch around the 2x3 inch screen (because I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to get it on the TV). I can't believe how much my girls have changed in just 5 short years. They were so tiny, my heart nearly swelled out of my chest just sitting there listening to them talk. Oh, I thought they were so big at 4 and 6!

Their faces, little-ness, and baby teeth tugged at my heartstrings. There on the couch with me, they were 5 years older. One with all sorts of metal in her mouth, beautifully shaping her teeth. She is now sporting glasses and says stuff like, "I don't like my hair." Oh, child, you will one day see your beauty!

The other asked if she could wear make-up for the day since we weren't going anywhere. That right there ages her a good year :) Her beauty inside and out is a thrill to watch.

They are by no means "all grown up" and I know I'll see videos of them at this age, 11 and 9 and wonder where the time went.

Here's the really cool thing: I get to do this gig all over again. Right now I have sweet baby Monkey who will be two in December, followed by her brother or sister in April. In ten years from now, I hope I'm on the couch with them watching their 6 and 4 year old videos. Maybe, oh and I hope it will happen, their 17 and 19 year old sisters will be sitting with us.

And then I'll cry... and laugh at the days to come! (oooo, I'm so Proverbs 31!)