dripping with passion

    i love these little boy so. crazy. much. i honestly feel like i am going to burst sometimes with how richly i adore them and how deeply i care for them. i feel enormously blessed to be moses and gabriel's mom. both of the wright brothers are growing up and changing every day. here's a snapshot of them each, at 2.6 years and 9.6 months old, so i can remember as time flies past. (the pictures at the beginning and end of this post, of the boys together, are from just after christmas, in their semi-matching christmas jumpers. the pictures of them on their own are from our trip to the canary islands - we just got back a few days ago!) - m o s e s -    he's really a remarkably good, clear communicator and it's so fun to have conversations with him. some of the things he says really often right now are, "not right now, in a little minute," "ready, steady, go," "i love  it!" and "mommy, can i please have..." he is cons...

a few things i want to remember about our boys at six months and two and a quarter years old: moses: loves to watch our wedding video (he asks for it every few days by saying "watch mama and daddy in the red car" referring to the very end when we leave our reception in a red car :) ). adores his brother and gives him the biggest, longest hugs while saying "awwwwww." says "one minute" pretty much 100% of the time he is asked to do something ... always looking for one more minute to play!  is obsessed with a story book his grandma gave him for christmas last year, and references the stories in it multiple times a day. loves animals more than anything. his favourite animals are elephants and giraffes and he will often randomly say, "i  love  elephants" or "i  love  giraffes." if he sees a picture of an animal when we are out and about he hollers "annnnnimal!!!" with so much glee. he spends hours every day playing with ...

  our little boys are growing up fast. over the past couple of months, it seems like both moses and gabriel have changed soooo much! i really think they are both  impossibly  cute and i have just been bowled over lately by how much i adore them. here's a little update on the wright brothers! these photos were at bear lake and here in our london home about three weeks ago ... and both boys have grown since then! i guess another update with newer pictures will have to come soon :) moses... ...has experienced an explosion of language since hanging out with a bunch of older cousins in the usa. he can now hold a pretty good little (albeit disjoined) conversation! it's pretty fun to chat with him, and he surprises me with words he knows every single day. ...has become a little singer! he perfected the abc song  thanks to his cousin-teachers zara and mila at bear lake. for the first couple of weeks after we got home from the states, anytime  moses saw ...

    our angel gabriel was blessed on the sunday of the eyrealm reunion. it was such a special occasion. our little baby was surrounded by so many who adore and support him. he was given a name and a blessing in a beautiful setting - at a place that is beloved and full of family love and memories. he wore the same outfit that his daddy was blessed in nearly thirty four years ago. and he got to share his blessing day with his sweet cousin who was born five days before him!   all four of little gabe's grandparents were there... ...and bear lake was sparkling in the sunshine as we all looked on from my parents' house up on the hill. first baby etta was blessed by her daddy, my brother eli: and then it was gabriel's turn! since i had the huge privilege of growing this sweet child inside of my body and then giving birth to him, i am so glad that his dad had this very special opportunity to bless him. and i am so grateful that our baby boy has the exa...