Growing up

Signs your child is growing up:

• You have her kill the wasps in the house for you (because you are too scared to do it yourself)
• She unloaded the dishwasher by herself, without prompting from me
• She figured out how to sign herself up for a Yahoo account (by lying about her age). This also got her a grounding from computer for a month
• She can pop her own popcorn
• She is begging to watch Nightmare on Elm Street (which I of course told her absolutely NOT!)
• She can reach the pedals on the pickup and still see over the steering wheel (she can also start it, which is very helpful on cold mornings)
• And she can drive the front-end loader in the field to help daddy stack hay
• She is talking to her friends on the phone now.
• She borrowed some of my clothes for her Halloween costume
• I go thru her friend's hand-me-downs first for myself before passing them on to her
• I go shoe shopping with her, because she is already trying to raid my closet

sniff, sniff. Yes, she is growing up. Picture is Shelby, age 10, this past Halloween. Dressed up as Hermoine Granger from Harry Potter.