Its wondeful hearing about these moments in everyone's lives - although I read mine again and thought - God its comming over as pushy / boastful parent rather than mother knock out at where daughter had got to. Forgive me its just that I get excited.

What I was thinking was - do these milestones in our lives coincide with our chidrens miles stones. I can only think of two occasions where it was really, really a milestone and I knew it at the time. One was when my parents dropped me and all my stuff at University at the begining of my first year and the other was the point when it dawned on me what the exact consequences of being pregnant was. On many cases what we consider as parents to be milestones are just continuation of growth for our children. Which is probably why I always get told - "don't make a fuss"

Julie