I'm pretty sure Max has his first real crush. There's this little girl named Sadie in his preschool class whom he declared was his girlfriend the first week of school. Since then he has talked about her and how he much he likes her. At first it was really cute, but now I think he really must like her. He always talks about Sadie when we are driving and after sitting quietly for a bit in the back of the truck he will usually say something about how Sadie is a princess and he wants to buy her something. Like one day he said that he was going to build Sadie a pink castle so she could live there and be a princess.
The other evening we were driving home and Max declared his love for Sadie once again. He said, "Mommy, I want to buy Sadie a ring. A special ring with a diamond in it. That way she can be my princess and I can be her prince."
My heart fell into the bottom of my stomach at that moment. I don't know why and I can't explain the feeling, but I had a slight sense of panic. It was like I realized right then exactly how fast his childhood was going to go by. I was saddened by the fact that my time spent with him just as he is now was such a small sliver of time compared to his whole lifetime ahead of him. I realized that in a blink of an eye, he may be talking about buying another girl, whether it be Sadie or some other special princess, a ring 20 or so years from now. Although I'm excited to see what kind of man he will become, I'm also reluctant to give up these years of innocence so quickly. No matter how hard I try though, time just will not stand still. So I laughed and told him,
"I think that would be a fun idea Max!"
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