I am having a pretty good day! Yesterday, I worked through something at work that has been hounding me for several weeks. This has been frustrating and I wanted to fix it. I was able to draw out the geometry of the spacecraft and get it working. Very very cool!

I’ve noticed that the whole Mom thing is taking a whole new direction as the girls get older. Yesterday, I signed BOTH girls up for the town’s after school program for the fall. I have all of Luna’s paperwork together, except her physical, for Kindergarten. I feel like we are less about bodily functions and more about emotional dramas, activities, and friendships. As Jay put it, we are getting out of babyhood. The milestones that you read about in the “what to expect when you’re programming a  brand new human being that you can’t understand because all they do is scream” books are done. The new milestones are more like cairns, you can find them along the path, but you hit them when you do, they are not always easy to see and sometimes, you’ll have to veer off the path to find them. I was watching Luna eat her breakfast today and for the first time, I could see cheek lines. Her cheeks have the most amazingly cute baby fat roundness. But today I could see that they are starting to thin out.  This is not one of the milestones you see in the books, but it is real: the day your pre-schooler starts to look like a kid. When you realize her motions are that of a kid, not a toddler. When you see that she is growing in length, not girth anymore. Her legs are stretching out, her arms are stretching. She is becoming a kid in body, emotions and soul. 

What are the new milestones of kids? So far, we’ve had the sleepovers, the friends saying I don’t want to be your friend anymore, the skinned knees, the first day of schools (except Luna), what else will we run into? Are they different for everyone? Do some kids pick up new milestones that others never see?  Oh the questions of parenting