Bigger

The first year, so little
They eat and they eat
Weight gain and growth charts 
Sleepless nights
teeth teeth teeth
Messy food on the floor meals.
We sneak in, look in the crib
They are so much bigger.
We go about life
Changing diapers
Reading stories
Cleaning cleaning cleaning
One load fits all of their clothes.
Invisibly growing
Head hitting the sharp corners
They are walking and talking
And 24 months...2T...3T
We work, grocery run, downward dog
Preschool drop offs
Pick ups, time outs
They just keep growing.
We sneak in and look
Angelic in sleep
But they are bigger! When? How? They fit in the bed?
Then school, lunches
Play dates, PTO
Homework
Date nights and parent teacher conferences
Tests
Multiplication
Get in the 20 minutes
Tuck them in, kiss goodnight
And they just go on growing.
No matter what we do
how fast we run the race
Whether we savor the moment or
Not
Full steam ahead.
They grow and grow
Leaving our so littles behind
And we clutch and we squeeze
But we cannot contain it
Can't quite remember just how little they were
But we know that they are bigger somehow
Than they were yesterday.