sooooo…i am back blogging bc ya know what?  y’all haven’t seen the cheeks girls in a while 🙂 and because this was one of the reasons why i decided to offer the head in the clouds minis, bc i SAW how much my girls loved this set from LAST YEAR, i was enamored with the images i got for myself as their mom and i wanted to give that to your baby girls as well… GET READY MORE OF THOSE ARE COMING but if you are impatient skip on over to the instgram account and look at the sneak peeks or even better scoot over to fb and check out the edited versions as they are popping up…

If you didn’t know last weekend was a whirlwind, i shot for 8 hours straight on sat and 5 on sun, my brand spankin new assistant that i hired was initiated into the most crazy, glitterriffic two days of shooting hahahaha… but more about that for now i leave you with one of MY ALL TIME FAV letters that i wrote to my girls when i was actively writing letters to my daughters…this letter gets me every time and it seemed fitting to RESHARE IT with these images from our shoot waaaaay back in august.

my glitter and my glue,

I am always fascinated at how different yet the same the two of you are. I mean you were raised the same by the same people at practically the same time…I am sure there is some truth to genetics and I totally buy into birth order theories and all of that hoopla, which is probably why I love to watch you two so much…just sit back and observe who you are apart and what you create when you are together.

One of you wakes up with a smile, sunshine follows in your footsteps, you are constantly talking, singing, humming and did I mention talking. But its not so much what you say, as much as it is what you DO! you sprinkle sunshine everywhere you go! You, make a wish and blow out the candles…you, are more EMOTION than THOUGHT… YOU FEEL LIFE! You just have a sense of others feelings, you know when life has taken its toll on someone and they need a hug. The other night at dinner you quietly got up and hugged our waitress in the middle of her taking our order. It surprised all of us…but you just knew…and by her reaction, that is exactly what she needed at that moment in her day. You wear your heart on your sleeve and it scares me, it scares this glass half empty mama, to see such a fragile part of you exposed. I know “girls”, I know “8, 9 10 year olds” and “middle school girls”, I know “highschool girls” and I know the hurt that words can so easily cause to a girl that is ALL HEART, a girl that feels life and believes everyone is truly good. But just as much as I am scared I am lucky! I am so lucky to see that sunshine and watch you spread it. While I want to protect it and guard it I know better…because YOU are smiling when you make others smile, when you show others they mean something, and when you smile, I smile.

Then one of you is a little more cautious, you are a little more thought and fewer words (not too many less but fewer compared to your sister, ha). You question things…you were the child that constantly asked me “mama what is dat?” “who is dat mommy?” The other night you asked daddy to do his “magic” trick over and over and over, I could see your wheels spinning you wanted to figure it out, you were determined! In the end you gave in and YOU BELEIVED HE REALLY WAS MAGIC, but we heard you later in the other room trying to create magic too whispering “abracadabra”. Well let me be the first to tell you baby girl, you are magic! People gravitate toward you, because they see your magic, they want to be a part of it! Sometimes I wonder if you are really shy or if its just you taking it all in, observing anyone new, trying to figure them out before you speak. You will always be the child who looks before she leaps! You are cautious and you take your time in everything but especially in giving your love…but that’s okay because when you give it its simply magical.

the thing is… this is why you are the perfect pair, a dynamic duo, and two halves to the whole… you are constantly watching out for each other and you are always there for one another, your best friend is always at your side…like I said in the beginning you are so much of the same and so different at the same time…you are both a little of glitter and a little of glue but the best part is when put together glitter and glue will always create a MASTERPEICE!

I love you my sparkly sticky beautiful mess!

love mommy

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