I wake up every morning after a hard days/night , exhausted, defeated. but to sea this gorgeous little baby almost can see the woman in her already. she is very advanced and happy and excited over me. I am worn down, desperate and lethargic, but she doesn't care and shows complete devotion (how rare in a human (how rare in an adult i mean). she brings some immediate youth back to my life. sounds selfish on my part? she dances with light, with her hands in the sunlight- I am in love with her. I can't wait for you to meet her. she has the curiosity and beauty I think I've lost by now. or perhaps not somehow
restorative hopes i think

spring time & being in love

love in being & time spring

explore

early Spring / skip Winter (Aela 6 1/2 months)

I heart AELA!!!!!

us

uncle mark with aela

WWIPD

Wendell Berry

“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

― Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community

:)

baby elves

still not making art

my aela baby fell asleep with her rattle socks on
then I hear them sound and it fills my heart.
it feels like the way i see her when she smiles in her sleep.
I don't want to ever forget
when she gets older, she will never get older.



http://deepwater.tumblr.com/

mom and baby

Be good to the earth this season

in the baby bjorn

aela hearts

She's growing so fast! My baby is almost too long for her NBclothes and I am already getting nostalgic about the day she was born as if it happened years ago. When I get stressed out from sleepdeprivation and worry, I have to remind myself to be in the present moment so that I can experience her fully and enjoy watching her grow up.

soften your heart”. (Phlm:6)

my babbers

almost 6 weeks old. she looks so much more like me now. The most astonishing things about her are her physical strength (she can already hold her head up on her own) and her alertness (she is very intensely aware of her surroundings) very visual, i think, like her mom :)

TINDRER

"We sparkle we rages
We glow, we
Turns us Down
Does not rest

We are mad
and fine
Crazy as glass
As parfurmeret paper

displayed

we lose
each Other
And can not handle it
And never get over it

forfeit
buried
In foreign cities
But remember we are still alive

displayed
Are we"
-under byen

baby house

with my little aela = LOVE

cousins: aela & delilah

Delilah Abigail

aela wrap

tipee

aela sleeping - a few days old

a few days old - Aela

Delilah at Aela's birth

Welcome Aela! This one is mine to keep :)

Day one. Aela was born July 30th at 3:19am. She weighed 6.12lbs & 19" long. She's beautiful. I'm in love

Welcome Delilah! my new baby niece

Born July 19th weighing 8.6lbs and 21" long

Woelv - Gris

Ô PAON

because