Being sad she's nearly 5

January 15, 2009

Being sad she's nearly 5

This morning my girls were delightful. Which is a lot to say about the baby. :) No - I take that back. She IS delightful ........ but just SOOOOO extremely OUT OF CONTROL that I forget to find the delight in that. :)

Anyway - they were dancing. And twirling. And giggling. So I got my hand held camera and tape recorded them. And as I sat there in my pink polka dot robe, hair in a towel, black socks and white slippers (it was only noon!), I started to cry. Realizing that my little miss fluffy would soon be 5. And when you're 5 - being little isn't so fun to them and they start to be old. And for that my tears came.

So - after I recorded, I decided to get my camera out. I was inspired by her hair. By her wavy, out of control beach hair. Oh how i want a beach. Mr. great salt lake, you're just not cutting it for me.

And then she twirled more for me...

And the light inspired me.

And I know that she's in her arial underwear that are too small because she inherited the cute elmore bum... but I want to remember how little she was. Because I think that I thought her brother was older than he was when he was 5 ... and I don't want to do that again. She IS little.

And then she decided to laugh...

and laugh some more ...

ooo - one more laugh ... when she saw this, she asked when her other tooth would be coming in. It's not a space for a tooth. It's just a cute space. Was she eating candy before this? maybe.

until she laughed so hard she turned serious...

And the moment was gone and she was out the door w/ my trench coat on - w/ nothing but her arial skivvies underneath. :) She went out looking for her sister who DISAPPEARED outside w/ oscar during our shoot. Nice. Call dcfs, i dare you. :)

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Comments

Kara! The light IS fabulous!!! I LOVE the twirling one. The light coming in from the window IS inspiring! SO fun to see the beach hair...not just fluffy head hair ;)

Posted by: Brandi Ginn | January 16, 2009 at 06:37 AM

I love this post. I love the pictures. I love that your baby disappeared.(as long as you found her!) Fluffy is growing up, but still little. She is beautiful.

Posted by: joanna | January 16, 2009 at 06:37 AM

Awwwwwww! You are right, her little bum IS cute! So sweet. Just remember not to pull that one out when the boyfriend is over a few years from now, or she will hate you for life!

P.S. Just saw Twilight for the 4th time and am beginning to feel like I have an addiction problem. Just how do you manage???

Posted by: bev robison | January 16, 2009 at 06:14 PM

what an awesome post... and these images.. the way you captured her..

Posted by: epellette | January 16, 2009 at 06:43 PM

Awww fluffy head is so pretty! love these and love the light! I wish you were near Virginia/DC to do my family pics! You rock girl!

Posted by: kathy | January 17, 2009 at 06:24 PM

I can't believe she is nearly five either! Where does the time go? She sure is a beautiful little girl. I especially like the pic of her twirling around in her underwear. That is such a little kid thing to do. Not a care in the world. Hilarious -- I mean really, when you're four, who needs clothes anyway? Hope you located little Miss M. in a timely manner. :)

Posted by: Sherry | January 18, 2009 at 06:12 PM

Omg. When did she grow up so much? Has she stopped letting your put the curlers in? Her hair look so LONG now that it's not all super fluffified. I love it :) And I LOVE these... so gorgeous.

Posted by: Amanda K | January 19, 2009 at 01:41 AM

She is so beautiful! I understand the whole issue with 5 because I recently visited that place with Madison. It seems as if it was only yesterday that they were born. I asked her to stop growing and she told me no. When I asked her why, she said she wanted to be big like me. My heart melted. I understand now when my mom told "They grow up so fast". Sometimes it makes me sad! Boo hoo! I am sure I am not they first mom to feel that way. Miss you girl!

Posted by: Cindy | January 19, 2009 at 08:49 AM