tiny pony

Last night, Ryan and I watched a movie in bed and Emma had fallen asleep between the two of us...there are many times where we just stop doing whatever we are doing and stand in awe of her; our daughter, this beautiful baby that is ours (!!). We were sidetracked from the movie and Ryan said something about how he doesn't think this constant amazement will ever go away, how we will always take a minute and soak in a feeling that is bigger than us. I got to thinking about a blog post I read from Frank Chimero, when he went into an apple store and there was a tiny pony in the store, only no one was paying any attention to it...he couldn't get over the fact that there was a TINY PONY in the store and no one was looking or making any reference to it. He later began using the phrase 'tiny pony' with his friend about how "it is a thing that is exceptional that no one, for whatever reason, notices. Or, conversely, it is an exceptional thing that everyone notices, but quickly grows acclimated to despite the brilliance of it all." He talks about how maybe this is how we get by, otherwise none of us might get anything done if we were constantly enamored by something...sure, this isn't directly related to a child, but what I'm saying is, I don't ever think we should lose that moment of thankfulness, of feeling blessed to have a child, of feeling so full of love you don't even know what to do with yourself. I know there are going to be good days and bad, but no matter what there is love and it is amazing....

4 months

Hard to believe Emma is 4 months, well really, it's more like 4.5 months...can anyone else believe it's already mid-January? While I'm not a huge fan of Ohio winters, it is far less painful when you have a sweet baby girl to stay warm and cuddle with - makes everything better!

Next week Emma gets to meet her Uncle Kevin for the first time - we are looking forward to seeing him and celebrating his 30th birthday!

Here are some of my favorite pictures of the past week:

oh wednesday

Oh Wednesday, you're such a tease....you feel so close to the weekend, yet so far! We do love our weekends, here's a taste of our typical weekend

new year, new things

Well it's back to reality...back to work, but the time off was so nice and of course it went too quick. In the past few weeks we have had many new things happening - Emma now drools buckets, constantly! We go through so many bibs each day - she's the cutest little drooling machine.

She has rolled over a few times, she laughs and she is turning into a little chatty cathy, oh I love her and watching her learn new things each day.

I also got a new phone (insert screams of joy here!) - I discovered the droid was SO not for me, maybe I just had a bit of bad luck but I am so happy to be an owner of an iphone again...Emma was happy for me too because she gave me some great smiles when I was trying out my camera for the first time.