i'll eat you up i love you so

i'll admit that there have been some stressful moments around our household lately as we're trying to get back on track with potty training (major regression when miles was born) and are continuing to adjust to life as a family of four. that said, time is flying, miles will be 10 weeks old tomorrow and i'm less than three months away from having a 3 year old. i want to cherish this time. lillie's imagination continues to grow daily and she's getting better at playing by herself (or with her imaginary friends). miles is smiling, cooing, and kicking up a storm...melting my heart. so in the moments of stress and chaos i want to be able to stop and remind myself how much i love them.
and let me do something that i don't often do here...recommend a movie. jed and i went to see where the wild things are a few weeks ago and i was utterly captured by it's honesty. go see it, remember how to feel like a child. here are my wild things...

kyle and gina

i had the privilege of taking pictures for my beautiful sister-in-law, gina and her boyfriend, kyle the other week. they just celebrated 1 year of dating and they are fabulous together. here are my favorites...

almost three going on five

as much as i love an occasional snow storm, i'm sort of sad that winter will soon be upon us. i love beautiful fall days and am dreading being cooped up inside with my two little ones. so we've been enjoying walks with our new double stroller and some fun fall photo shoots while we still can. here are some of my favorite images of lillie from yesterday...when did she get so old?

overalls and a dimple

miles and i took advantage of the beautifully warm fall day and had a little photo shoot in our driveway yesterday afternoon.
here are some of my favorites.

family of four

yesterday marked five weeks since miles was born. time is flying and will continue to do so i'm sure. it's so fun to discover pieces of his personality...he still loves cuddling but is interacting more each day! three weeks ago, our friend kelly took some wonderful family photos for us and here are some of my favorites...

sibling loving

here we are at the end of september already, how did that happen? on wednesday miles will be three weeks old! honestly, it's sort of hard to remember life without him.... lillie is enjoying her new big sister roll most of the time which has been a huge blessing! here are my two little loves.

hello world

it's hard to believe that it has been nearly two weeks since our son arrived! miles samuel was born on 9.9.09 at 9 am. He weighed in just short of 9lbs at 8lbs 14oz and 21 inches long. we are again so amazed at the miracle of new life! it has been an interesting two weeks as jed, lillie and i have all been battling colds, but we certainly can't complain...miles has thus far been a very content baby, our families have been extremely helpful, and lillie's adjustment (while there have been a few bumps) to being a big sister is going fairly well!
jed captured some wonderful moments of our day.

waiting in triage (above)
miles getting checked out (below)

shortly after we got settled in to our room, but before miles was even back from the nursery...our room was invaded by a news crew from cbs21 (yes, they asked first). check out our son's tv debut here! we spent the afternoon and evening resting and introducing miles to the rest of his family and some friends. kelly blessed us with some amazing pictures from that evening (see below)!

meeting grandpa and grandma burkholder (above)
and grandpa and grandma jackson (below)

being held by his big sister for the first time (above)
so tiny (below)

our first family of four photo (above)
i finally got around to taking some pictures of my
own one morning in the hospital (below)

we're so excited that you're here miles...love you!