Lourdes-22 months

I have found that Instagram is proving much more efficient in archiving my thoughts and pictures as usually I have one free hand or just a quick second to write a thought or memory.  To a fault, I love documenting the lens in which I see our children everyday.  I cling tightly to the things I see them do and say.  I love catching the everyday moments I witness that I know are fleeting and want to write them down. I have concocted this notion that blogging must be this long journal like post, almost like a mini-story each time.  That mentality isn't working though because months are going by and I don't write anything because it isn't a mini-story to reveal.  I want to change that because in reality in years to come, they will read our blog not my Instagram account.  I hope to go back through my Instagram pictures and put those recordings here and then begin posting just something little each day or at least each week that I see or think about our days and lives together.

 Poor little thing.  Missed her big sisters' tea party while napping so had to dine alone.  She didn't mind a bit. 

 Her pigs are high and tight everyday.

 Her beloved Dada always to the rescue.  Zellie started sewing lessons this past fall and made this little French hat. 

 9/10 meals are eaten with extended toes

 She's one of the quirkiest birds we've ever had.  Smart, witty, won't stop talking, and grimaced really good at the lector announcing the opening hymn at mass.  To top her morning off, I trimmed her bangs a bit to short (resembling Roberta off of Swiss Family Robinson) and she was in a tiff all morning because she said they "Hurt!"

Sometimes your hair gets in the way and you have to pull it back really tight.

 The neck.  Always the neck...especially bent over reading gets me every darn time.

Favorite hobby: Dumping out and destroying board games.  The older girls started a Christmas puzzle four times due to the above destroyer.  They finally gave up as she was determined to foil their efforts.