We are time's subject, and time bids be gone....

The first picture was taken in 2012, just a few days after the kids came to our home, the second a year later.  How can they grow and change this much in what seems like the blink of an eye???  It's hard to see time pass so quickly by, especially because we missed the first 6 and 7 years of their lives.  I want the 3,153,600 minutes I've missed of Lizzy to land on our lawn and dance around so I can see them.  And the 3,679,200 minutes I've missed of Paul could park themselves on my living room floor if they don't mind.  I just want them to slow down, to give us a chance to really absorb everything and wring every minute out of it.  I hate that by the time we got them, they were a third of the way to grown and gone.  I tell them all the time they aren't allowed to ever move out.  That they must live with me until they are 97.  Because I just don't think that by the time they are ready to leave, I will be ready to let them go.