So my baby brother started his army service today. My baby brother. He is 19, will be 20 in the summer but still, he is my baby brother. I'm sure he doesn't want me to announce this on worldwide media {to the 5 readers I have ;-) } but I still call him "vauva" or baby in Finnish! He is and always will be baby to me. It seems like it was only yesterday when me and Riina used to give him sour candy, these sour pastel colour smiley face candy we used to eat and he would take it, put it in his mouth and then make the cutest face ever when he tasted the sour taste. It was awesome and he just would never learn. He thought it looked good and we could fool him time and time again. After he learned it wasn't tasty we could still get him make that face. I would put one up here but all my pictures are in Finland.
I remember when he was in the kindergarten and sometimes after school and during the summer I used to come pick him up. I remember the day when there was a big forest fire in Tammela and I went to pick him up and it was raining burnt pine needles. I used to give him a ride at the back of my bike.
I also remember when I was in high school and the 2 high schools in Forssa merged. In one of the buildings was also Arttu's elementary school so even though we were 10 years apart for a year and a half we went to school in the same building. It was nice to see him during the day.
And now the baby boy is in the army. I feel like I'm old. Or getting there. I'll be 30 this year and I still feel like a teenager. With more responsibility and more worries. I feel like I should be in my early twenties. But time flies when your going to school...
This year is a big birthday year in my family. Ybi will be 60, me and Riina will turn 30 and Arttu will be 20. Where did the time go?
I will try to blog about x-mas one of these days...Hope everybody is having a great year!
Later
