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ayon and i wonder if you will be our little artist like your daddy but most of all despite your incredible stubborn streak you are just so sweet the day or two after you broke your leg i had the first opportunity since you were born to spend a whole day alone with just you and i got a rare glimpse into what life might have been like with just one easy child it was a gloriously simple day we shopped had lunch cuddled on the couch you took an incredibly long nap and i just got to enjoy your delightfully sweet company you both make our lives so crazy and full and yes full of crazy but also full of imagination and wonder and pink and purple and unicorns and princesses and picnics and all the beautiful girly things i didn t realize that i still love as much as you do discovering these enchanted worlds with you and seeing them through your eyes is a gift and a privilege and even though i cry a little inside every time i realize how fast you are growing up i know we have so many wonderful adventures ahead of us keep dreaming singing dancing playing and making the world a little bit more magical every day my sweet princesses xoxo love mommy filed under birthdays twins by ariana 3 comments happy 7th birthday jasper august 20th 2015 by ariana to my dear sweat boy the one who made me a mom i simply cannot believe you are seven seven is like real big kid territory only a few more years until you are a tween but for now you are still our little guy still big hearted kind considerate compassionate and you still like to hang out with your dad and i and even your sisters this has been a huge year of firsts first year of elementary school first lost tooth first time playing t ball and you have just rolled with it like it was no big deal i would even say you excelled even though our first meeting with your teacher we heard you had a hard time not talking out of turn by the end of the year she only had the highest of praise for you and how much you contributed to the class in t ball you were a powerhouse hitter to be reckoned with even when pitched to and that s without getting to use your true talent which is a rocket of an arm i m excited for you to get to pitch some day in little league and show everyone what you can do you also have so many new interests like origami and music you look like such a teenager listening to my old ipod here is a list of some of your favorite things at the moment song i want to love you madly by cake friend you are still so close to all your amazing preschool friends but i ve loved watching you develop your friendships with so many new friends like leo and at school frankie teddy sean and a few others i m forgetting ice cream flavor chocolate chip cookie dough movie tough one you loved home and inside out superhero ant man at the current moment toy you love to build with magnatiles and legos but bear is still the one you look for every night before bed thank god activity playing rocket ship and camping with your sisters this usually involves complete destruction of the living room and or guest room but it s totally worth it to see how adorably you all play together you also love playing go fish and crazy eights sport i love how well you ve been doing at baseball but you really love basketball book harry potter of course but you also loved reading fly guy all by yourself there are so many wonderful things about you i could keep writing on and on but one of the things that makes us most proud is how you continue to be so sweet and loving with your sisters i hope they always appreciate how incredibly lucky they are to have a big brother who doesn t just tolerate them but loves to be with them take care of them and play with them despite the age difference i see such a caring gentle side to you in the way you are with them that makes my heart melt into a puddle all over the floor six was an amazing year and i can t wait to see what wonderful things seven brings your way xoxo mommy filed under birthdays by ariana 3 comments saying farewell to the fall winter sort of march 30th 2015 by ariana here it is march 30th and technically spring but it snowed yes snowed this morning not sure why i m shocked honestly this has been the loooooooongest snowiest winter ever but i m not just here to talk about winter i ve still got to tackle fall as well because it s been so long since i last posted shamefully long jasper is almost done with kindergarten and sasha willow are 2 and half in three short months they will be moving up to the preschool room at daycare i can t even believe it this whole year has gotten away from me every time i think of something i want to post about i think wait i can t post that because i didn t post yet about such and such that happened before it case in point i never posted about jasper s 6th birthday so i didnt want to then post about his first day at kindergarten it s a vicious cycle so i decided today i m going to do a catch up post so that i can commit to memory some of the highlights of this fall and winter the thing is that i don t want to forget this year in particular for the girls because two is tough yes but also magical partly because i just love the toddler stage so much the cute way they say things their chubby checks and round necks and diaper butts but also because this whole year has been a series of firsts for them yes their birthday party was technically their second birthday party but it was the first one where they got really excited about the cake and their party hats and their presents ditto with christmas and their first time playing in the snow pure magic but let me back up a bit to where the gaps in the story started forming right around this guys sixth birthday it was the culmination of our family vacation week and one of my favorite days of all time close on the heels of that it was time to send our first baby off to school for the first time the girls came to see him off and then i headed back home to nervously wait for him to come home on the bus and then he came running off the bus happy as a clam jasper totally had this school thing down and i m happy to report that he s really thrived this year the most exciting development being that he is now reading and thus began our fall which sasha willow were so enchanted with from their first time visiting a pumpkin patch to their first time getting dressed up for halloween and somewhere during this time the girls started taking ballet lessons which really is the cutest darn thing ever i mean they are a total disaster in class they don t listen or do anything they are supposed to but i don t even care because they love the idea of it and playing dress up and i figure the actual following direction part will come eventually right and somewhere in the past few months sasha finally grew enough hair for the two cutest little pigtails ever and the other amazing thing that happened is that the girls started playing together like really playing and watching their bond grow makes my heart explode with happiness every single day you can see by the clutter around them that keeping up with two active toddlers and their big brother generally gets the best of me every single day i can t possibly keep up with the mess and when big brother gets in on the action which he regularly does to play space ship camping or train which b it s even more chaos but there is a lot of love and a good deal of exhaustion and patience and somehow everything finds it s way back to it s place somehow and now that spring is in the air i am just now finally able to look back at this winter and appreciate the fun and the beauty one of the bright spots of the long winter was valentine s day one of the only annual traditions that i ve actually stuck with is doing a valentine s day themed shoot with jasper in the past i ve used the images to create a custom valentine s day card for his classmates this year my travel schedule and jeff s were so busy that i didn t manage to shoot early enough for the cards but i did instead do the shoot on valentine s day with jasper and his girlfriend eleanor i almost didn t pull it together but i m so glad i did because these two are just the cutest together and i m so happy i got to document this first puppy love you can see the complete session on my photography website here http www arianafalerni com 2015 02 14 happy valentines day 3 in another huge milestone jeff and i took jasper to disney universal for a whirlwind 3 day trip without the twins it was so incredibly special to focus just on jasper for three days he s such an amazing big brother and has never once been jealous of all the attention the girls get in fact he wanted the girls to come with us on the trip and was devastated when we told him they were staying home we didn t have the best weather but we did have the best little harry potter impersonator at the whole universal studios seriously i stopped counting how many people asked to take a picture with him he was quite the rockstar eating burty bot s everyday flavoured beans we spent our last day at the magic kingdom and i was freezing so didn t take too many images but the one image i wanted to recreate was this one from our last trip to disney when jasper was only 2 too bad i couldn t recreate some of those blue skies and warm temperatures but we did make some amazing memories and i m already looking forward to a few years from now when we will attempt this trip with the girls in tow i can only imagine how excited they will be to meet cinderella and snow white who they so strongly identify with since dressing up like them for halloween so that in a very long nutshell brings us pretty much up to date with what s been going on in in our neck of the woods this fall winter i can look back now with a bit of fondness but i am very very much looking forward to getting outdoors again this spring filed under travel twins by ariana no comments happy 2nd birthday sasha willow october 1st 2014 by ariana my dear sweet baby girls i can t believe today you turn two i cried several times yesterday realizing that it was your last day as one even though you ve been toddling for almost a whole year now one is still a baby in my mind whereas two sets you firmly into toddlerhood while it s a positive joy to watch you learn and grow you are just so incredibly perfect as you are right in this very moment that you ll have to forgive me for wishing i could freeze time willow you are just so sweet and cuddly and you give the best kisses you love singing your abcs which you call baby sees and watching bicky mouse with your big brother you are such a unique combination of delicate and stubborn quiet and reserved and you have a very singluar sense of humor your stubborn tenacity i hope will serve you well in the future it has already helped you master delicate and difficult tasks like putting on and buckling your own shoes your deep sometimes husky voice is so unexpected i think someday you will be the alto to sasha s soparano i can t wait until we can start singing harmonies i swear you were a dancer in a former life you are so graceful and flexible and you sometimes randomly do an arabesque or walk around the house on your toes you are picky about food but love your milk you also love your bunny playing with your purse and wearing jasper s superhero cape you are so beautiful that sometimes it takes my breath away and your cheeks are so soft i could kiss them all day my little sasha star you are a born entertainer and you keep us all in stitches most of the time having you around sometimes feels like having another adult you don t miss a thing and you talk just like a grown up it s truly amazing you love to test limits and push boundaries and have lately even mastered the art of emotional manipulation your latest thing is when you do something you know is wrong you say i m a baby because that s the excuse you ve heard me give your brother on so many occasions when you were doing something you shouldn t do you also will run and hug me after doing something wrong just to make sure i m not holding a grudge there s never a dull moment when you are around you love nursery rhymes and songs playing with big brother s batman caves and figures and reading books you love the water both the swimming pool and taking a bath you would stay in for hours if you could you have your daddy s sense of order needing to put everything in it s place a draw slightly ajar drives you crazy and you are a great help at clean up time you are also mommy s wonderful little helper often fetching me things i ask for or finding toys or missing snack cups for your sister where mommy has failed i found it mommy you also have such a heightened sense of concern for others you always ask if i m ok even when i ve only coughed or sneezed our family has changed so much since bringing you both home from the hospital almost two years ago yes life is crazy and hectic i can t remember to pay the bills on time the house is a mess and the list could go on but i can t even for one second imagine our lives without you you completed our crazy family well actually made it into what it is now and i can honestly say that through it all i always remember to be grateful for the privilege of being your mother though i may sometimes feel woefully inadequate to the task my hands are too full literally with both of you to document our lives photographically as much as i was able to with your brother and for that i have much regret but on the annual occasion that i marshal the resources necessary to do a real photoshoot with you i try to make the most out of it knowing just how rare it is i may not be able to stop the marching of time but i can on occasion freeze it in a picture and for that skill i am so grateful because someday when i look back on these images i want to remember as much as i possibly can about the impossibly beautiful and perfect little beings that you are at this very moment my sweet sweet baby girls xoxo mommy readers click here for more and for bigger better versions of the images filed under birthdays by ariana 5 comments happy 22 months sasha willow august 1st 2014 by ariana it s been three months since your last birthday post which means i have a lot of images to post from the last three months you have grown up so much this summer speaking in complete sentences suddenly i have two little people to converse with by entertained by and do the bidding of every day hearing you talk is just the cutest sweetest thing and also such a relief that you can ask for exactly what you want instead of us trying to guess not only do you talk but you love to sing currently your favorite is let it go from frozen but you also love itsy bitsy little spider twinkle twinkle row row row your boat and rockabye baby which you like to sing to dolls and animals by rocking them you also have conversations together when you think no one else is watching and you ll play little games like peekaboo t...