are you really brothers???

My friend Muranda has two little boys and every once in a while she does a comparison on her blog of her boys when they were the same age. Unlike my kids, her kids actually look like brothers...

6 MONTH COMPARISON

MILES

SMITH

TAKE THAT!

That will teach you to play favorites dad!!!...

6 months of motherhood bliss!

I cant believe my little buddha is already 6 months old! Time has flown by. Like they say, time flies when you are having fun, and this kid is a blast! I cant get enough of him. He has a perma grin on his face and laughs out loud over anything. He loves to eat, and is sitting up like a champ (except for the time that he fell on his face at mollies wedding right before family pictures) Smith adores him and looks forward to seeing him every morning when he wakes up. I can already tell they have such an amazing bond. There is no greater blessing in this world then being a mom, and I am just so grateful for this -not so little anymore-bundle of joy!

Reality

Something about that picture of Mollie and My dad below makes me want to cry every time I look at it. I thought maybe it was because Mollie looks like she is going to cry, or because she is the last of the kids to be married off... I wasn't sure at first but then I realized the whole reason I got teary eyed is because of my DADS face. If you know my dad, you know he is always giving advice and praising us... and I know that is exactly what he was doing in that picture. being HIM! and it made me want to capture more AS THEY ARE moments in my life, because those are the pictures that I cherish forever. So I did a little experiment... I snuck out and without looking into my camera I followed Smith around and took pictures as he ran from me (as he always does) I just held the camera out, and while still interacting with him I snapped away. It didn't exactly capture one of those priceless moments, but I sure got some cute REAL smiles out of him :) If only someone would invent a camera you could implant into your eyeballs to catch memories of life how it really is... there would be some pretty embarrassing pictures of me out there...