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My dd is SIX today... feels like a milestone

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princesspeahead · 18/03/2004 11:28

It is my dd's 6th birthday today - she is my eldest - and I really feel like she has suddenly jumped up into the world of older children. Instead of having three little children I have two little children and this big girl who can read her own birthday cards and hold her own with 8yr olds!!

I feel a little sad about it...like it is the end of an era... does anyone else have a clue what I'm wittering on about?!

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lydialemon · 18/03/2004 11:43

Yes, DS1 was 6 on 16/2 and he doesn't seem like a little boy anymore. There are still flashes though especially when he's playing with his brother! I have to say that with looking after DD and DS1 not finishing school until 4 (5 when he has an after school activity) I feel like I hardly see him any more

carla · 18/03/2004 11:45

I know exactly what you mean, PPH. I even mourned the loss of the nappies and buggy era! I look at pics of mine when they were younger and just wish I could freeze them (DD's that is, not the photos!) It's just that you can see their childhood slipping through your fingers ..

Thomcat · 18/03/2004 11:48

I haven't experienced first hand what ypou mean but do understand.

i remember when my friend burst into tears when her son posted a letter. It was that he was suddenly tall enough to reach after years of wanting to but not being able to and now he could it meant he was getting big and growing up.

I lay in bed this morning looking at my 'baby' and just couldn't imagine a time where she'll be running around and chatering away etc.
She still seems like such a little girl and the fact that she doesn't talk much or run or even crawl makes it feel as if she's frozen in time as my baby sometimes.

Anyway, very happy birthdya to you eldest baby, hope you all have a lovely day

handlemecarefully · 18/03/2004 12:18

PPH,

Yes, I do know what you mean. Although my dd is but a mere 20 months old I have already felt little pangs about the fact that she is growing up so fast.

lou33 · 18/03/2004 12:24

Oh know just what you mean pph. DD1 is going to be 12 in a few weeks, and I can't understand how it happened so fast! She's 5ft2, size 6 feet, getting hormonal, in love with Orlando Bloom, but I'm sure it was only yesterday she was snuggled up in my arms weighing 6lb 6 oz.

lou33 · 18/03/2004 12:25

Happy birthday to your dd btw .

oliveoil · 18/03/2004 12:31

My friends dd is 6 next week and she and her brother 5, were discussing whether they liked their PE teacher in the back of the car on the way home from school, sounding very adult. My friend said it was like eavesdropping on a strangers conversation and she wondered where her 'babies' had gone.

Posey · 18/03/2004 21:18

PPh - Know exactly what you're on about, but have to say once the shock of your "baby" growing up has worn off, it actually gets even better.
My dd will be 7 in June and really feel that this past year she's grown up so much. Not in a precocious, pre-teen way. Just she's this great little person who can hold her own but still prefers it if you're there a lot of the time; who can read her own bedtime story but still loves to cuddle up together and have you read to her; who loves to have playdates but still prefers to be at home at bedtime;
There are loads of things I could say. Some days they seem so grown up, but the next moment you realise 6 is still very young. I think its the best of all worlds age.

WideWebWitch · 18/03/2004 21:24

Yes, pph, I know what you mean too. My son is 6 and a half and he's turning into a man it seems already. He sweats, he doesn't want to kiss me goodbye in front of his class mates, he's tall and filled out, he's up to my shoulders and I love him to bits and can't believe he's so old. Carla, how beautifully put about their childhood slipping through your fingers, it feels exactly like that for me sometimes. Happy Birthday to your dd pph.

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princesspeahead · 18/03/2004 21:31

Oh thank you for all these comments, it is lovely to know that other people have similar feelings! It has been such a lovely day with lots of presents and chocolate cake and fun, but she is just SO much more grownup than on her birthday last year. I guess as you say, lou, it just keeps getting like this, milestone after milestone and then suddenly they are 23. Sigh!

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Ailsa · 18/03/2004 22:49

I know what everyone means about dd's and ds's growing up and no longer being little.

I've got 3 milestones this year - dd1 goes into double figures, she'll be 10 in July, ds moves up to the Junior school in September, and, dd2 has her first birthday in September.

Oh and according to Legal & General I am 37.5 on my next birthday, so looks like I age only ½ year each year. Looks like I'll have to wait until 2009 for the big party.

tamum · 18/03/2004 22:59

I completely understand. My dd is 6 in a few weeks. She still seems quite little to me, because ds is 9, but I do find it quite scary how fast it all goes. I just feel this is such a lovely stage in my life, and it's not going to last all that much longer. She comes running out of school and flings her arms round me now, but in another year or so that will have stopped. I just keep thinking if someone said OK, you can stop your children growing up any more and they will stay this age forever, it would be awful really wouldn't it? Imagine how sad you'd feel for them. Not much comfort, but a bit.

marthamoo · 18/03/2004 23:02

Oh yes, pph. Ds1 was 7 last Saturday and I felt so sad. Where did my baby go ? It just goes too quickly, doesn't it?

lou33 · 19/03/2004 14:09

PPh, just console yourself with the fact then when she is 23 you can lust after her boyfriends and ogle his mates too.

nutcracker · 19/03/2004 14:14

Oh yes and yes and yes. My dd is 6 going on 16. I keep joking to my mom that i will have to lock her up when she gets to 10

I'm sure i was nothing like that when i was 6.

She was listening to the radio with her sister the other day and said "i know, lets do pole dancing"

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