Both the babies have birthdays this month. Well, they really aren't babies anymore...turning 11 and 12 actually.

I wonder what they look like and I wonder who they are. Hailey was such a little tomboy. All she wanted to be was a football player when she grew up. It was funny...Eris was such a girly girl...always wanting shoes and hair pretties and what not. But I had to bribe Hay to let me put a braid in her hair and then it could only be a "big braid" down her back. With a plain elastic band...no bobbles or anything.

And my baby...my little Lecie. She was 18mo old the last time I saw her and now she will be 11. She looked like a little doll when she was born, had all this dark hair and huge dark blue eyes. All my other kids were blond so a dark haired baby was a nice change of pace.

She almost died when she was born, we both did. I remember a nurse asking me what I wanted (a boy or a girl). I just said I wanted it to be alive...and after that I wanted it to be healthy. Boy or girl didn't matter. She was a stubborn little thing...stomped her foot before she could stand. Knew I was in trouble when I saw that.

And so another year passes. I don't know how it can go so slow and so fast and so slow at the same time.