the end of an era

Kj lost her first tooth yesterday. and with it went a part of our lives that we wont live again...having babies, and toddler types around the house. it makes me kind of sad. we look at the baby stuff at the store and there is no one to buy it for, so we keep walking. pete and i were talking about how nice it will be when its just the two of us, surprisingly we are closer to having fewer people in the house than we are to the time when we started adding new babies. in a few short years we will start saying good bye to our kids as they move out. Annika is only starting 4 grade but it seems like yesterday that she was born.  Andy gets married in two days and that gets me think too. about new beginnings, about they days when we were planning all that. i love where we are now, this comfortable loving partnership. but somedays i miss the new beginnings.