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MY LIFE IN A INSTAGRAM (april/may)

been a while since i've gone through my IG pics... life is so full, and so superfast for everyone these days that it's hard to get the full impact of the amazingness of a life, all of these wonderful moments, except for in reflection. anyone else feel like that? like, you know it's pretty cool, this moment you're living in...  maybe it measures a 6 on a 1-10 scale.  but in reflection, it's somehow become a 10.5 moment. i dunno, maybe that's just me. but that's why i love looking back on all these pictures... so that i can more fully feel that tenderness, that sweetness, that beauty and joy of life. soak it in a little more fully... (except that my littles are growing up so fast it make me wanna cry! sniff sniff!)

i think most of these are from end of april/may, starting from when Keats came home. and if it weren't for having a camera in my back pocket (the one on my phone) i would've probably forgotten these already. sigh. thank you iphone.

hope you are having a good week!

xxo

Spread Your Wings, Butterfly // newborn shoot

Listen/Play:  10 Butterfly

 

Butterfly...
close your eyes, butterfly
Fold your wings
Dream sweet dreams, butterfly.

sweet baby aiden, 

you sweet little boy... 

when i first met you, you were a loved little lump in your mommy's tummy. 

look  at you now, you sweet butterfly

you are the smile upon your mother's lips,

the tenderness in your father's caress,

every inch of you a miracle...
 
the tuft of your hair 

the landscape of your feet

every crevice revealing the promise of your great journey to come...

the sweetness of your rumpled, perfect skin

 

you are the joy in your parents' hearts

the sweet coo ringing in the ears 

Butterfly,
close your eyes, butterfly,
fold your wings,
Beautiful things,
Butterfly 

 

 

When you feel 
the sun warm on your face again
you will fly...

 

 Spread your wings,
Butterfly.

 

Spread your wings,
you will fly...

 

-Elizabeth Mitchell & Lisa Loeb 

sleep softly, sugarplum /// los angeles newborn photography

good night, sweet lamb, good night

 

xxo

my very own christmas elf /// {newborn photography}

home life /// the sunday sessions

sunday mornings.

snuggling in.

home life.

something about these three things together rate as one of my all time favorite things.  in the early morning light, my daughter comes crawling into bed with us, squeezing and squirming her way in between me and her dad (and now her sister, too), finding her rightful place in this family dynamic. with eyes still closed, my arms reach out and guide her into the snuggle fest.  tired as i may be, especially now with the nighttime nursing marathon, i know that these are those times... the times when memories are being formed... the times that, when they're grown, i'll remember with such sentiment that it'll bring me to tears i'll cherish it so.

and as i lay there absorbing all this amazingness that is my family -- as im sure you feel about your family -- i hugged and snuggled my daughters, and my husband, and i rejoiced in their glow, and i willed myself to open my eyes, and put my feet on the floor, and go grab my camera...

so that i wouldn't forget.

so that i wouldn't take for granted the specialness of this time:

the beginning bonds of sisterhood...

the curl of her body...

the sleepy, tired, handsome face of my husband...



the complexity of this child that i discover anew each day...

and the discoveries awaiting me in this one...


i reached for my camera so that i could fall in love again and again and again....

and could forever cherish the landscape of her face

and the joy de vivre beaming from hers....

and her dirty feet and goofy smile and her delicious heart and her pride at being a sister... and the angelic Navia who makes my heart burst from tenderness...

i reached for my camera so i could discover the new dynamic of my family... and because it was warm beneath the covers, and it was sunday morning, and the light was coming in just so....  and i knew in 2 months, or 2 years, or 2 decades, i would need to remember this particular morning on this particular day during this particular time.

xxo

 

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