A beginning ...

I have wanted to start a blog for awhile but it is one of those things that keeps getting pushed aside. It is no wonder with a family, a full time job, a house, and ... well the list of excuses could go on and on. I realized the other night though I was missing out on capturing the small little moments that make up life (that is where this blog's title came from!) and was disappointed in myself for that. So here I am with the goal to capture and remember the small things in the life of my girls and little one we are expecting in August.


My Grace moment:
Grace is 2 years and 4.5 months. Right now, she loves to see the moon in the sky. She shouts "moon!" every time she sees it. She stood at the backdoor the other night saying "moon" over and over and over again as she pointed at it. She even convinced Sophie to come look at the moon. I asked her if she could say hi to the moon and in her sweet toddler voice she said, "hi moon!" As she sat with Brian in his chair right before bedtime, she saw the moon out the window and once again, but unprompted this time, said "hi moon!" It is amazing something so simple can bring a mother such joy but it is possible!
Flashback moment:
I showed Grace the moon for the first time this past fall when I was planting the pansies out front. It got dark but I wasn't done and was determined to finish. Grace was determined to stay outside with me. She stacked all of the empty pansy containers for me. I showed her the moon and her version of moon at the time was "oooo". So for months, "oooo" was moon to her as she would point at it with excitement that it was back in the sky for her to see.

My Sophie moment:
Sophie is 13 months old today. If you ask her to clap or if she hears clapping, she will now start clapping. This has made "The Clap-Clap Show" (i.e., Wheel of Fortune) very fun at our house again. She clapped through the whole show the other night. I smiled the whole show as she was in my lap clapping away. As of yesterday, she learned to say "apple". It still amazes me that she will carry around a whole apple eating at it with her four little teeth, well she is cutting two more as I type, and say "apple" at only 13 months old.


As times goes on, I hope to add little moments from day to day life here at our house. As I remember moments, I hope to capture those since my memory only seems to fade instead of getting stronger!