Amelia is 2 years and 7 months old. Lately, every time I ask her “How old are you?” she responds with “THREE!” The first couple times she said that, I just gave her the “you’re silly” face and said “Whaaat? You’re TWO!” …today when she said it, I suddenly looked at her (sitting on the floor in Gideon’s “treat spot”, waiting for gummy vitamins like a puppy) and realized she really is almost three years old. I’m not sure why it hit me so hard, but for some reason anything over the age of two is just… a ki
Dustin became a teenager this year. That was pretty huge for me. It’s mind boggling, if I think about it too much, how fast life goes by. I can close my eyes and vividly re-live the day he was born and the days following his birth as if they were yesterday, or even this morning. You replay a memory many, many times. Probably more than you’re even consciously aware of. Replaying to the point where it’s like memorizing a movie or a song or a poem or someone’s face. I really can replay it as if he was b
Amelia turned 2 years old in February. Just an amazing, ridiculously awesome thing. I say it often, but only because it is so true… I never TRULY grasped the term “Bittersweet” until I had this girl. Watching her grow every single day is the most amazing and saddest thing I’ve ever experienced. I know now what so many millions of Mother’s have said before me, that I wish so much that she could stay a little baby, but what an amazing, unspeakable miracle it is to be able to watch her grow. In a way, I c