I met my 16 month old niece this week and was able to spend a few good days with my brother and sister in law. How amazing it is to be around a little person again and to reminisce on the times when our children were so itty bitty. With every step that Emma took I could see our now almost 10 year old Tori. The cute dresses, the hair clips the eyelashes that seem to go on for days, all came pouring back.
 I don't miss the stroller and the diapers and the bags of snacks and drinks and everything that babydom entails, but I cannot believe how quickly it all became a thing of the past for us. Now, it is my little girl kneeling down beside her cousin and picking up the tossed drink cup. At one point during our visit, Tori proclaimed that watching Emma is way cooler than anything on tv. I couldn't have said it better myself. In fact, there hasn't been anything on tv that is more fun to watch since children came into my life 14 years ago.
  The truth is that time does go too fast. It was yesterday when I marveled at our little girl while she slept. It was yesterday that the cute jumper outfits and hair clips were amazing on her itty bitty body. Today we shop for starter bras and we anticipate when the twin bed will grow too short to hold her ever lengthening legs. Just this morning I stared at her with her feet hanging out under her blanket and her body all askew on her bed and wondered how she has become the young lady that she is.
 The answer is just as the Pajama Diary cartoon states, it happened in the blink of an eye.