Happy Birthday, Aubrie!

Can she really be TWO?  My baby is becoming her own person and a little more independent each day (despite my attempts to hold on tight).  Aubrie is talking up a storm, especially sentences like, “No, Mama!” or “That’s mine, Lily!”  Could I have a control freak on my hands?  Even though we are feeling the effects of the “terrible twos” already, Aubrie is such a sweet, confident, funny and cuddly little girl.  She loves to dance and perform (gee, wonder where she gets that from?), and completely cracks us up when she sings “One, Two Buckle my shoe….Three, Four shut da do-wah!”  Her New Orleanian accent is in full force now!

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The last two years have been exhausting, fun, endearing…did I mention tiring?  But, Aubrie has definitely completed our family and my husband and I thank God for her every day.  Happy Birthday, my sweet baby!

Happy Birthday, Lily!

Today, my oldest daughter turns 5 years old!  Where did the time go?  I feel like I will blink and she will be 15.  Sometimes I find myself staring at her and wondering what she will look like at 10, 20, 30, etc.  I wonder what she will be when she grows up (a teacher like her Dad, a science geek like her Mom, or something completely her own).  I wonder if I am doing everything I can to ensure that she will grow strong wings and learn to fly on her own one day.  But in the meantime, I am trying to savor every minute….

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Love, Mommy, Daddy and Aubrie