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My "baby" got her period today. I wasn't expecting to feel a pang of ... what ... not sadness exactly, but the proof that time is racing by is just a bit poignant.
When my first daughter reached this milestone I gave her a piece of "real" jewelry, a necklace with her initial in gold. Though she didn't love it at first--as a tomboy she didn't have much use for jewelry yet--she has always been a responsible and tidy sort so I knew she'd take good care of it. My younger child? Not so much. While she loves jewelry and so on she is MUCH less careful with her belongings and her room is a nightmare, so I'm not inclined to give her such a gift, at least not yet.
I just discovered that I have to buy my first "baby's" new shorts in the Men's section (sob). His shoe size is the same as his daddy's (double sob). And today - is that peach fuzz on his upper lip?? (boo hoo!!).
My oldest is wearing ladies' clothes now instead of girls', and wearing size 8 shoes.
No Aunt Flo yet but I know that's coming soon...I have her bathroom stocked with an assortment of supplies, and I'm making her keep a pad in her purse in case. She has several books on the topic and she and her friends read them together and shriek with laughter.
My 11 year old girls know what to expect but I know I will cry in agony when it happens. I stretched the limits a great deal to adopt at 55 and when they "become women" it will be a true confirmation of my senior status. But I knew it was on the horizon and we are ready although they have no interest in purses or even carrying "stuff like that" in their back packs. One already has definite hips and some curves. It won't be long now.
She has several books on the topic and she and her friends read them together and shriek with laughter.
I remember those books! Haha. So funny if you really look at it. Especially the line-drawing of how to insert a tampon. And it always says "put one foot on the toilet". Does anyone really do that?
when they "become women" it will be a true confirmation of my senior status.
Never connected one with the other!!!!
Why, they are still going to be little girls - until their brain really develops! With this tendency to start periods earlier and earlier, at 8 and 9 and 10, - I don't know, they are still little girls to me.
My daughter is 15, but she had her first period (menarche) at 10.
Her mother and I took for granted it would be earlier than her friends'. Her mother had her first period at age seven, and was a B cup by age nine--precocious puberty before anyone ever heard of it.
After taking the toddler she babysits to Chuck E. Cheese, my daughter has announced she is going to have her tubes tied.
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