Friday, August 22, 2014

What Strikes Me Today

...is that Sunshine is the age Speed was when they arrived in May 2013. The exact age. And Chickadee is the exact age Sunshine was when they arrived in May 2013. (Have I mentioned that there is exactly 15 months between each child? To the day?).

This strikes me both in how much the older two were robbed of their childhoods and in how little they once were. I cannot remember Speed ever being as little as Sunshine is now. Hasn't he always been able to reach the sink and countertops?  I cannot imagine Sunshine being as socially carefree and playful as Chickadee is now. Along those lines, the difference in every.single.thing about Speed when he arrived vs. Sunshine now is astonishing.



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