My older two boys turned 8 yesterday.
Wow. 8 seems like such a big kid age, doesn't it?
Or is it that I just can't seem to wrap my brain around the fact that its been 8 years since these little men came into our lives.
You know the old women in the grocery store stop and tell you how fast time will fly with kiddos. And you smile and say something like "they DO grow up fast, don't they?" But you just don't really imagine how fast it will be until you wake up one morning and your sweet little tiny baby is 8! 8!
It has been an amazing gift to watch two little boys push and pull to become the men they are becoming. Despite their mother's efforts to treat them equally, they continue to remind me that they are different. And much be treated as such.
I feel like this year has been a really big year for them in many ways. We have always given them their space. They have always been in separate classrooms, but this year has found them on separate soccer teams. (with the younger one too, that's three soccer teams, three different practice nights, and three games on Saturday). Which left me worried what would happen when your two teams played each other. You are also in different bedroom for the first time in your lives. But it makes my heart glad when at least half of the mornings I go to wake one of you up to find the other has climbed into bed with you in the middle of the night.
Thank you for being such good kids. Thank you for being so good to your little brother. Thank you for teaching me so many wonderful lessons I would not have learned otherwise. Thank you for caring about your friends and your community. Thank you for loving God. Thank you for being honest, strong young men.
My prayer is that you two continue to realize what a special relationship you have. And that you take the strength and confidence that relationship comes with having a brother that close and use it to do wonderful things in the world.
I love you my two big 8 year olds.
-Mama
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Oh, and I don't think I ever posted an update to the zygosity test, but...to their pleasure, they are identical.