To feel like she's been here forever?

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DD2 is 2 today. It feels like she's been here forever but everyone keeps saying "Hasn't it flown by?"

I feel like DD1 (4.6) is growing up really fast though!

What a lovely age.
My DD is 12 in May. It does feel like she's been here forever and there's no sign of her ever moving out. FX she does.

My DD is only 14 months old but I can barely remember life before her. I have to think really hard to imagine what my daily life was like before I became pregnant. It really is amazing!

It sounds like you are enjoying the time you have with your children while they are small, and maybe just noticing the time with your eldest becoming more fleeting as she moves further towards being independent.

I'm going to be lost when she starts Playgroup in January five afternoons a week. The health visitor is very pushy about her going and interacting with other children and half of me wants to hide her away. DP and I have decided to have no more children so she really is my baby. Plus she is very clingy unlike DD1 who is very headstrong and independent!

DD1 is in Reception full time now. It's her first 'big girl disco' straight after school and it feels like she really is growing up when she comes home to read me a book!

People look at me oddly when I say time hasn't flown. I've been here every day so if anything it feels like time has been going veeeery slowly

She doesn't have to start playgroup you know. She can interact with other children in loads of other ways. my DD1 will be 10 next week & I remember when she was 2.8 & I had DS1 & the HV was going on about putting her name down but I just said no thank you & carried on with all the nice stuff we were doing together. Time goes so fast & school comes around so quick so my advice would be enjoy the time you have if you want to which it sounds like you do

I don't know why you hv is so keen for her to go to play group. Unless you never go out and never take her anywhere? Or will you be going back to work? Afternoons can be a pain for lo as they tend to nap!

My dd is at home but we go out everyday, toddler groups where there are other mums who have lo same age as mine (3) and we have playdates. Otherwise she comes shopping, supermarket shop etc etc. I don't think we will have anymore either, so I am the same as you and want to enjoy this time. It won't happen again.

I checked with the school she will go to re their take on her not going to nursery, and they said as long as she had a busy life and played with other children, did arts and crafts etc then it will be fine. She is not clingy at all, and often goes to classes for 30 mins without me there, like ballet.

I am going to miss her when she goes to school. But looking forward to it as well:)

Plus she has her db to play with after school and weekends. He is 5 and didn't go to nursery either:)

I clicked on this thinking it was a thread about a visiting MiL!

Enjoy your 2 year old, my baby turns 5 in a few days and starts school in Feb. I miss him already :/

My MIL feels as if she's been here forever if she's been here for 5 minutes!

I swear the health visitor thinks we love in the cupboard under the stairs just because we see my friends with children, go swimming, go to a toddler cafe/activity place instead of the baby groups she recommends

I understand what you mean by why would you think it was UR?

Just everyone was telling me it should have flown by and how lucky I am for it to have gone so quickly. Whenever I oppose it its like they don't want to hear it so I asked here. Strange thing to be BU about but you never know

You can ignore the hv.

I think it goes really slowly when they are tiny because you get no sleep and it's so relentless (lovely too) - it feels like you will always have a liitle one. But when your kids are a bit older and you can hardly remember the days when they were small you realise that the time really has gone. Mine are 6 and 8, and I can't believe I no longer have snuggly babies! It's more fun now in lots of ways but I still miss them as toddlers.

Time goes so quickly when they start school. I remember my Mum telling me this and I didn't really understand it. I have a 7 year old in her fourth year of primary school and a 5 year old just started P1, the school terms just fly by.

The baby - I know she's 21 months but she's a baby seems to be racing ahead already, not so much with the sleeping! but with everything else

She's currently playing with her present. I got told off for only buying her one present as we're short of money but its one of the last years I can fully get away with it without the "I want"s starting.

She seems happy anyway!!