Life Moves Too Fast

In just one week, My Punkin will be 5! It seems like just yesterday she was taking her first steps and in September, she started Kindergarten. Where does life go? We have tried to capture all of her young years in photos and in video. I just wanted to use this post as time to reflect on the baby that she was and the young girl that she is today.

She is only 5 days old in this photo. She was so tiny and she slept most of the time.

Alex was 6 months old in this photo and she was baby of the week in K-Mart for it.

This is a video of Alex's first steps. It was taken on 8/20/2004 (she was 2 days shy of 9 months old). It wasn't long after that she was on her own.

This is a photo we used on our Christmas Labels in 2004. Alex is about a year old in this photo.
This is a photo of when we first brought Joey home from the hospital. Alex is 15 months old in this photo. She was such a big girl.


Today, Alex amazes me regularly with the things that she can do. I want to list 20 of them for you now.

1. She tells jokes.
2. She performs magic tricks.
3. She can tie knots.
4. She can button and unbutton her shirt ALONE!
5. She puts on and zips her coat ALONE!
6. She can swing herself. =)
7. She can buckle and unbuckle herself in and out of the carseat.
8. She can ride her bike (with training wheels).
9. She roller skates.
10. She can climb to the top of the jungle gym.
11. She recognizes and writes the Alphabet.
12. She draws people...and cats as well as colors in the lines.
13. She is very social and makes friends easily.
14. She prays on her own.
15. She remembers to tell me things that the teacher tells her to tell me.
16. She writes her first and last name as well as Joey, Mom, Mommom, and Poppop. She can also copy anything that you write for her.
17. One of my very most favorites is that she sings. She sings songs that she's been taught and she makes up her own.
18. She takes good photos.
19. She paints.
20. SHE WIPES HER OWN HINEY!!!

Here are some photos of my Punkin today:

This is her very first modeling gig.
Roller skating.
Mini golf. She hits the ball in the hole.

She is very flexible.

This is Pre-K Graduation from June. Isn't she beautiful.

One of the funny things she does is the Soduko that is in the bathroom when she goes. She randomly fills in numbers in open blocks. She looks very serious when she's doing it too. She also is such a daredevil. She loves to ride the roller coasters at the boardwalk and can't wait until she's tall enough to ride the bigger ones.

It's hard to grasp that my little punkin is not so little anymore. She's so self sufficient and independent. Sending her to school this year was very tough for me and not at all for her. She asks regularly if she can ride the bus. Brodie and I just aren't ready to take that step yet. She seems to have a little something going on with a boy at school and he shares the feelings. I say nothing to her about it because I'm not ready for my little girl to recognize that she likes boys. She loves to sing and will sing when she's happy or bored or just in a daze. She's such a good girl too. Such a mommy pleaser. She's getting so big. I always wonder what she'll be like when she's older. One thing is for sure, it's coming too quickly. Life Moves Too Fast.