goldie locks

for the first time in my 7 plus years of loving these many sweet, small(but ever growing bigger!) blessings, i clipped the tiny blonde ends of my baby girl's hair! i say "first time" because all the other tips i've clipped were of a much darker color!




our little "exception to the rule" held perfectly still, excited to finally be the one to get her "hairs cut". of course, this was not her first, but second time getting a clip... each tiny head in our family gets their first hair clipping around 5 months of age...see!

before:


after:


when it was all finished i grabbed the broom to start my clean up...expecting there to actually be something to sweep! to my surprise...all the tincey little blonde ends had wisped away...floating through the air, too translucent for me to even find! seriously, there was nothing on the ground! just a few pieces that had gotten stuck to the towel. i really cut quite a bit off...but her hair is just so fine and thin...she is more like her momma than she knows!


our sweet number four was so pleased with her new look! she has told everyone who will listen about her new "do" and even flips her hands through it for effect!

(to me she looks like a blonde, miguel in this one!!)

six reasons to celebrate

the sweetness of this moment grows with every passing year.

tiny, smily, gentle...


you are this way still.


it was a great joy to celebrate our samuel turning 6...january 29th, 2004


his special day stretched into two, from breakfast all the way to dinner and a yummy dessert the next night.



we completed the fun with a movie in the garage, cuddled up with his sibs!

we LOVE you samuel...heaps!!!

our seconds

my ongoing desire in this new year has been/is to appreciate every moment.

trying hard not to wish away or hurry along the seconds of our life.

i struggle with this at times...thinking "life will be easier when 1,2,3 or 4 is in school/potty trained/sleeping through the night/not so whiny/develops more self control!"


of course, this is pure silliness on my part. our life will only ramp up from here... we are tending towards more busy-ness, not less.


whether i like it or not, chaos (and lots of it) is to be a mainstay in our life.
and these moments...our sweet seconds...they are passing by. noticed or not.


to that end...here are some of our recent seconds...sweet and fleeting.
perfectly us...from here.

freeze

i spent a few minutes trying to capture everyone holding still, all together and smiling.











i decided to settle for sitting up and not crying.