Capturing It



Jack and Lila at Christmas

It is the second week of the new year and we are just coming down from Lila's first holiday season.  After many parties, much cookie and cake baking, decking the halls and snowstorm travel to Philadelphia and Vermont, Lila is now enjoying a long winter's nap in her crib.  The unusually high amount of snowfall has covered the trees outside our window and transformed the hilltop view into a Currier and Ives painting. We bid adieu to our Christmas tree today, sent it off to be turned to mulch- hopefully for someone's spring bulbs.  The stockings are packed away for next year and with the thank you notes sent, my energy now turns to organizing all of the holiday photos and videos.  With family and friends scattered across the country I try to post photos and share Lila as much as possible, all the while trying to balance enjoying the moments with capturing them.  Lila will be six months next week and the "firsts" are now coming in rapid succession- no longer a tiny baby, our little girl has almost tripled her birth weight.  She now holds her head high, sits in the "tripod" position, is working on that first tooth, and is quite the motormouth - producing a cacophony of sounds that often erupt through a geyser of bubbles.  In these milestone filled days, I do my best to capture the moments with a camera, document in the baby book and write about it all.  Most importantly, we soak up each moment of beautiful Lila, who greets us with a smile every morning that typically lasts throughout the day.  We are blessed with this joyful little girl and while she has not yet found words, her ever-present smile speaks volumes.

Ready for the new year in her jeans

First Snowstorm