Letters to Emmalyn

Dear Emmalyn,

How are you getting so big? My sweet girl...you are so full of life it makes my heart want to explode most days. Your personality is shining through more and more, and your just about the happiest tiny human I've ever met. I'm learning more and more how to be a mommy each day, and not every day is perfect, some days I still feel a little lost with no road map. But thats the thing...we make the path up as we go along, and there is something a little scary and unknown but something completely raw and beautiful. Thank you for figuring out this journey with me, I would want no one other then you by my side as we navigate this together. And at the end of the day when it seems a little un-perfect in a perfect way I look back in awe. it is is incredible to watch...I watch you in awe, as you grow, learn, laugh, and evolve into such a beautiful being. 

Love you my girl xo Mommy

Thank you Wild Wood Knits for this beautiful blanket and bonnet - we had fun doing photos in them!

Letters to Emmalyn - Half a year

Half a year has already flown by -- a collaboration of long days and short months that if I blink are gone. I'm trying to savor every moment & drink in every bit of you, your smell, your littleness, your curiosity, it is all so unbelievable. I kiss your cheeks at least a hundred times a day and I'm reminded that its going so fast.  I still can remember the newborn days and yet I can't all at the same time. You are six months old and these are the days that are filled with your sweet baby babble of dadadada, watching you reach for things that interest you, sitting up by yourself, trying solid foods, and letting out giggles of infectious laughter that fill my soul to the very top. You have brought us such incredible joy (fitting that its your middle name) and when strangers used to pass by that was all they did until we had you, now they stop and also get a bit of that joy.  I hope you know how loved you are and I hope you always have that smile to share. 

Love you so much baby girl and have such immense gratitude that you are ours.

xo Mommy