Feeling a Little Sentimental Today...

This morning I take Grace to register for kindergarten. Now, generally speaking, I'm OK with her actually going to "real school." She's excited, so I'm excited for her. The daycare she currently goes to is so far away that it will be rather comforting having her go to school right around the corner from our house, where she can make friends with kids that actually live in the area.

What freaks me out is that she's already old enough to go. Oh my god. It seems like she was just born for the love of god!

So anyway, prompted by this sentimental feeling, I went back and looked at pictures from this time of each year since she was born. Bad move. That just made me more sentimental (but also made me smile because she was so cute).

So let's take a quick walk down Memory Lane, shall we?

Here she is in March of 2002. She was about 9 months old and couldn't even walk yet...

A year later in March of 2003. I remember that day. Steve and I took her to the park. I was 6 months pregnant with Hannah at the time and we were trying to fit in as much time with Grace as we could before the new baby came along...

By the next March, in 2004, she looked so much older. Totally little girl at that point, with all signs of babiness gone.

And here she is around this time one short year ago. Playing outside and making friends with the caterpillars...

And now. She's ALL kid now. And although I'm so proud of her and am thrilled to see her growing into a beautiful little girl, I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that baby a little bit. Time goes too fast, my friends...