...her little lisp

....and cute grin

....and how nurturing (and very bossy she is).

...his obsession with light sabers and dancing

...how he says he's going to be a prophet for God

....and how he's simultaneously driving me mad and more in love with him every day.

...how he's slipping further away from boyhood and into the teenage years.

....how responsible and self-driven he is

...and how he can talk a  mile a minute.

Tis' true: In parenting, the days are long but the years are short.