So, apparently I've quit my 365 challenge. I tried, I really did. But it seems 2012 has thrown a lot more at us than I expected, and I buckled under the pressure. This does not mean I'm going to stop trying to take pictures every day. It just means that I don't really need any more pressure at the moment.
Not stressing about the 365 has given me a little more time to focus on a few really fun projects, one of which included the adorable Savannah. She's a super cute almost 6 month old with loads of personality. She just happens to be the little miracle that belongs to one of my best friends. Everyone thinks their kids are miracles, and to each parent they probably are. I won't get into all of the little details about why this particular little girl is a miracle to her parents, it's not really my place to do so anyways. But suffice it to say that she is.
She had a bit of a cold the day of our little shoot. Her poor momma spent a good portion of the hour wiping snot from her nose and drool from her mouth. I've got to say I'm a little partial to the drool. There are some things that are so quintessentially indicative of a 6 month old. Teething drool is just one of those things.
Wrinkly baby butts, tiny toes, a few tears, all of these things become precious to us a mothers when we look back at the pictures of our babies at this age. For never again will they be fascinated with their own little perfect feet. Never again will they work so vigorously to cut little teeth, or have the exact same sweet soft, curved cheeks. Never again will they be their little, perfect six month selves.
They will never be the same, and yet we will love them more. (How is that even possible???) Every month they will grow both more perfect and more imperfect all at the same time. And our hearts will soak them up until we feel it might burst if forced to contain any more love.
We think we can not love then more, and yet we do. Every second of everyday. They are so perfect in their imperfections and they are OURS. There is no more perfect love than that.
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