Aden was my first baby. In some ways she'll always be a baby to me. But as the oldest she's always ahead, and always the first to arrive at certain milestones. It was with Aden that we had to learn how to let her form her own life outside of us at school, and to walk to the store alone, and to take on new and more complex responsibilities. Next to her siblings her most notable feature is always that she is older.
