butterfly. babies. love.

i have been loving watching my babies grow into little girls. and sure, they are only 18 months, but the days of bottles, high chairs, teethers, crawling, and baby food seem so long ago. i miss it some days, of course. in fact i may miss it just a little every day, but i have no complaints about the excitement that each day of their development brings now. yesterday was such an amazing time for our little family. after church and before brunch, we took a little stroll in the park. we snapped some pictures and laughed a lot. i saw my little girls point out the grass, the buggies, the sun, the trees... as they ran to each other and asked me to hold their hands one minute, while running free and independent the next. motherhood has brought so much purpose to my life, so many more obstacles, so many more responsibilities, so many more prayers... and so, so much more joy. with rockstar being such good girls at brunch aviyah flying high with daddy micaiah loving he

baby linda kay i never truly understood it before, because i could not.   a mother's love is one of the most special gifts in the world. to feel the love  of a mother, and to feel love  as a mother... i have experienced both and am so incredibly grateful for every memory and emotion that is brought on by these gifts. my mommy came to visit last weekend. she flew in for one full day, really... and it was a visit that i will always be grateful for. she came simply to spend some time with her baby and her baby's babies. she came simply to encourage me and hug me and hold my girls and buy us lots of things... pregnant - summer 2010 she somehow managed to cook me all my favorites before she got on the plane. in between taking care of little jonah and working at the hospital, she found the time to cook enough food to feed us for three days. she packed it all up and as i unloaded her suitcase it felt like christmas morning. of course i had ideas of cooking for