Where oh where did Yaya go?

For sure.....just wait until one of your's has their 40th birthday coming up! I can't believe how fast my little granddaughter has grown up either.....I remember the first time I held her in the hospital....now she is in preschool and hockey....way too fast!

I know exactly what u mean. I CAN'T BELIEVE MY CHILDREN ARE THE AGE THEY ARE. T hey grow up way too quick. Enjoy every minute w/them.

Yes...way...way...way...too fast My Maribel will be...gulp...17...in 3 months. I miss her as a toddler too...she was soooo much fun then.....

Mine is almost 12 and I know just what you mean! We are riding the emotional puberty rollercoaster at the minute. One second she wants to be a little girl with her mom and the next she wants to push me away. Time is flying by!!

Now why would you make me cry like that writing such a lovely poem? No Brownies for you.. I haven't cried my eyes out in years My little nieces are only 7 but it was just yesterday that they were newborns.. next thing you know they'll be bringing some tattooed body, tall freak who smokes like a chimney and claiming they are "in love"... really dreading the teenage years for them...

Feels like there is a warning and reminder for me somewhere here....a warning that kids are gifts that are fragile and a reminder that time does fly. This is a poem that also reminds us that although we are not metamorphic creature, we do have radical changes going on after graduating from elementary school.

Yes they do Dawn mine are now 25 and 22 and I still wonder where the time has gone I still remember them toddling about climbing on my lap or kissing their bumps and grazes better oh it was so much easier then, now it does not work anymore kissing their hurt away but the Hug still works even though it will not take away but it will ease it

I love this post, but how does Dearra feel about it? Is she shy about the times that you talk about her online. I think you have real talent, Dawn.

I have just spent a few days with two of our granddaughters. The younger one is 5 and sooooooooooo delightful. The 9 year old is too, but I can't believe how "old" she is. She is more like a 12-13 year old in so many ways, but not (thankfully) in others. Dawn I know you thoroughly enjoy your children so you are going to have great memories - and more importantly, so will they. When your children range from 33 - 48 as mine do, the memories are still there and are precious. They grow quickly, but we would complain if they didn't.

I'm addicted to your discussions....lol. So it's Yaya this time. Actually, when I watch my nieces and nephews, month after month and year after year, I see changes too. Progressive ones..suddenly, they have grown an inch here, an inch there. Oh babies, don't grow up so fast. Nice poem you've got there..

My sister used to call me Yaya when she was a toddler... They do grow up fast, I know, I can’t believe my daughter was once a little tiny baby who used to lie on my lower arm and puke down my back when I burped her! My girl does ballroom dancing and I watching her waltz the other with her high heeled ballroom shoes, she looked so grown up, I could not believe it! I have told to stop growing and threatened not to feed her anymore! By the way mine won’t let me sing either!

Have you considered changing your career to be a poet? Children grow too fast that it seems only yesterday and all of a sudden they are adults. Well this is life. Others see us grow up. Now we see others grow up.

In a blink, in the twinkling of an eye, the time passes us and we are left with the memories of them being babies, which they shall always be to us. Thanks for this little poem!

Me and my husband are really amazed about how our kids are growing up that fast and this also means that we're not getting any younger. Since we are both working we hired a caregiver to look after our kids, take them to school and picked them up. We are so lucky to have a trustworthy caregiver. She is so responsible and caring. She also helps me with household chores. In a span of one year, our yaya witnessed how fast our kids grow...physically plus how they are responding to the school's intervention program. Thanks to our yaya... she's simply the best!

wow dawnald thats a great poem. they do grow up so quick. My son is coming to see me this afternoon and I still remember him at age one when he was running after a leaf, and picked it up and looked it over so intently. now he is fifty and still looks over everything intently. a computer programmer but alas he is out of work. so sad. but one day soon perhaps.

Hi dawnald, Yes children grow up so fast and I always refer to my niece and nephew as my babies, they are both in their thirties, they are twins, sometime they make me feel so old. Tamara

Oh yes how right you are. I have 2 kids, both boys, 10 an 6. The older one only needs a few inches to be as tall as myself. My younger son used to stand under the dining table and he can stand straight under it just right, now at 6 the table is up to his waist already. My husband jokes sometimes that in a few years time they will both be bringing their girlfriends at home to introduce to me. Oh no, please, I'm not ready yet.

My eldest grandchild will be 17 in March. I am at a loss for words. Enjoy them while you can.

When I was little, I thought time went by so slowly. Now I found that time flies soquickly. Especially when I look at my girl. She seemed to be a baby yesterday,

How i wish my kids will be forever kids. ;p