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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 this little piggy crawling around like crabs on the floor or your absolute favorite which is ring around the rosy other things you love are sitting in daddy s lap while he plays guitar swimming particularly sasha who is my little fishy reading books going to school and anything that has to do with dress up and or accessories these include putting on whatever shoes you might find available regardless of gender or size capes you run around the couch in circles saying super girl sunglasses and hairbows i ll let your breathtaking cuteness speak for itself something else incredibly special happened in june you got to meet your auntie roxy and uncle adam for the very first time of course you were both completely smitten sasha you in particular which doesn t surprise me because you remind me of her in so many ways you particularly loved cuddling up with her under blankies having aunty roxy visit made that whole week completely magical we all can t wait to see her again xoxo mommy filed under birthdays by ariana 2 comments preschool graduation july 2nd 2014 by ariana last week my little guy graduated preschool it was such an emotional day for everyone involved the kids the parents and the staff of the daycare center that really is like our second family the only thing that kept me from melting into a puddle of tears is that my girls are still at the center so on top of saying goodbye to jasper s dearest friends i didn t also have to mourn the loss of our relationship with the center and it s staff altogether but it was still of course a tearful goodbye i ve had the privilege of knowing many of jasper s classmates since they were just infants together and how do you thank his teachers enough teachers who i truly feel have raised him as much as we have he learned so many things at school not just how to read and write though that is pretty amazing but life skills and lessons respect listening cleaning up right down to more practical things like how to zipper they pretty much potty trained him and countless other things i can t even think of but the greatest gift his teachers gave us as a family was the knowledge that he was surrounded during the day by people who loved him i can t imagine it s every daycare center that you are friends with the staff on facebook and the teachers text you cute pictures of your kids regularly it was with that same love that the director and staff put together such a special graduation ceremony complete with a surprise yearbook full of pictures of each graduate throughout their years at the center for each child to take home i was lucky that my parents and sister came a long to help out with the twins so i could shoot some pictures each child wrote what he wanted to be when he grew up singing you ve got a friend in me getting his diploma hugs from ms jessica ms sonia who s been with him for his whole preschool experience all three teachers it was such a special day the perfect ending to the incredible 5 and a half year experience that has shaped so much of who jasper is and laid the foundation of who he will become saying thank you doesn t seem quite adequate but i just have to trust that the staff knows how grateful we are for the care they have taken of our amazing boy filed under milestones by ariana 1 comment she really is a superhero june 30th 2014 by ariana i just had to commemorate two firsts today the first time sasha spontaneously said i love you mommy to me what an amazing feeling she s already extremely precocious verbally well many things actually but the last two days there s been even more of an advance yesterday she started saying things like i want it and i like it when talking about something and then this morning she went over to the window to look out to the pool and told me that she wanted to swim when i told her no pool today she said please i know it doesn t sound like much but what is was is that we had a conversation in other words previously she may have just cried when i told her no or repeated herself more loudly or emphatically or with tears but today it was a plea an answer to my no i know it s just the first of a billion more pleaaaaaaseee momeeeees to come but it was so surprising coming from this tiny toddler i often think of that shakespeare quote though she be but little she is fierce when i think of sasha that or a superhero which she fittingly donned the costume of yesterday after her brother had discarded it on the floor did the fact that it s a size 4t deter her not one bit shine on my little sasha star filed under milestones sasha star by ariana no comments happy father s day june 16th 2014 by ariana a day late but i couldn t not wish jeff my dad and all the wonderful dads i know a happy father s day we had a wonderful day finally getting to go for the first swim in our pool which has been nothing but trouble since we first tried to open and failed memorial day weekend but finally after a ridiculous amount of work on jeff s part and a small fortune paid to run a new gas line the pool is open after a lovely meal with my parents i had chance to look through the father s day gifts jasper and the girls had made him at daycare they always make me weepy there is just something about those craft projects that just sort of capture the pure joy of parenting those little beings but this year there was one project that had me in tears but not the weepy kind i have type it out just in case you can t read it jasper s answers in bold my dad is a superhero because because he s strong my superdad s suphero power is that s his power he s strong i already said that dumbass ok jasper didn t say dubmass but that s how it read in my head he s as strong as maybe a heavy rock he s as fast as well my dad s not that fast actually this kills me because anyone who knows jeff well knows that he doesn t rush for anyone or anything i think i first realized this about him when we were living in alphabet city which was pretty far from the nearest subway station in the winter we would sometimes take the 14d bus and if it was cold you would definitely want to make that bus rather than stand outside freezing your ass off waiting for the next one so i was definitely not above jogging to catch a bus that was about to leave but jeff he d just let it go i think he d pretty much let anything happen rather than break into a jog in fact the only time i think i ve ever seen him move with lightning speed was when jasper ran onto an elevator as it s doors were about to close he leapt into immediate action and was almost unrecognizable to me as he darted onto the elevator to rescue jasper knocking me over in the process of course it this makes perfect sense to this former astrologer that a taurus would behave this way but it s still amusing that 5 year old jasper picked up on this quirk of jeff s personality in other news you may or may not have seen this image of jeff and jasper on the cover of the canon father s day circular last sunday here s a iphone shot of the cover itself i was of course incredibly honored that they chose my image but also it made me nostalgic for the days when i could tote my camera around anywhere ready to catch moments such as these fast forward to now with the twins and i m on duty as baby chaser at all times the few times i ve been brave enough to bring my camera anywhere it s been a monumental waste of effort and worrying about it s well being when i go running off after one of the girls just adds to the chaos which limits my ability to document life with our three to stolen snapshots at home where all of these were taken sometimes it s low on my list of priorities but i m glad i occasionally make a point to capture the incredible bond my husband has with our children whether it s with my real camera or just my iphone and i can t not include one of my favorite images of jeff and jasper of all time can you see a theme emerging yes he loves to play guitar for them lately the girls like to climb right up onto his lap while he s playing and play with him so cute so happy father s day to the player of soundtracks kisser of boo boos pretend fight master plumber gardner fence mender chef strong as a bolder superdad you are the glue that keeps this family together and we love you so much filed under holidays by ariana no comments getting ready to say goodbye to pre k june 6th 2014 by ariana dear jasper it s been a long time too long since i devoted a post all to you but i wanted to write about what happened in the car yesterday we were driving home from daycare and i asked you how you felt about pre k graduation day being only a few weeks away you asked how many days it was and when i told you it was like flipping a switch and you suddenly understood truly understood what all the recent events have been leading up to the practicing for graduation the kindergarten orientation the kindergarten screening it s all been leading up to the unavoidable fact that you are leaving the daycare center that has been your second home for 5 5 years i almost wonder if because you ve watched two other groups of friends graduate and move on if you didn t somehow miss the fact that you would be one of them this year whatever the reasons once it sunk it you collapsed into a fit of tears in your carseat it broke my heart to see you so sad and to not even be able to hug or comfort you from behind the wheel so i tried to minimize the damage assuring you that you would make new friends and that we would still see your old friends on weekends for playdates that you would still be able to visit the center when we pick up your sisters but you were not assuaged and so i asked you what you would miss you said tearfully your friends your teachers your school and i again told you we would still see your friends but you cried that you wanted to see them every day and though my heart broke for you in that moment i was also so proud of you for the depth of your feelings at such a young age for the depth of the friendships you ve forged and the maturity it takes to recognize that something so precious must be cherished i have a lot more to say about the 5 wonderful years you ve spent at daycare but i ll save them for graduation until then i know that you will make the most of every day you have left with the friends and family you ve made these past 5 years filed under milestones by ariana 1 comment 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