Time Machine

I think I stepped into a time machine back around July and got out today.  I had the weirdest sensation today--sharp and hit-with-a-2x4-esque--that I have two children who have grown up enormously in the last few months, and I've hardly noticed it.  Please, oh please, let me figure out how to not have that feeling *too* strongly when these precious ones are grown and launched.  Owen is really a different kid than he was pre-Asher and when I saw Asher laughing at Owen making faces at him today I realized just how much fun he has added to our family.  Reuel and I don't seem very different...more gray hairs and less sleep, perhaps!

My big boy who can't grow up fast enough, in his own opinion...

And the happy little one (...who just like his brother gets intensely serious when there is a camera lens to examine, but unlike his brother is quite a bit more light-hearted once the camera disappears again!).  Asher wearing a hand-me-down turtleneck and sporting what I like to call the middle-aged-high-school-drama-teacher look: