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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
- Anais Nin

I realize now, more than ever, that the people around us make us who we are. The friends, and even the enemies, create our personality – good or bad – and make us who we are. The same is true with children. I can watch my children and watch their interaction with others and know that they realize friendship is good – and sometimes painful – and it makes them happy. When they are happy, I am happy, and the world is wonderful. Fortunately, children are never truly unhappy – which means that the world is always a pretty wonderful place.

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When we first found out that we were pregnant, we started looking for a new house.  Our starter home, at a little over 1000 square feet just wouldn’t be big enough for the three of us – let alone whatever was to come.  It was a tedious process, but thankfully we found something new.  Once that had been done the next task was putting our own personal touch on the place and in our excitement we started with the new baby’s room.

We had a ton of ideas, from our first effort at painting wainscot in alternating flat and gloss paints to a bright green that was so bright when you looked out the bedroom window the neighbors house actually looked green.  We would have to change something.

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Going back through old folders of pictures is fun – or albums if you have them – and I encourage everyone to go look through their children’s early years.  It’s amazing, even after only three (and two) years how much mine have changed.  They’ve changed from babies into little people – each with their own personality and specialness.   Each wonderful, beautiful, and exciting. 

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Having your second child is no less exciting than the first, but it would be impossible for me to suggest that either birth was similar.  When Natalie came into the world we knew a bit about what to expect and worked to integrate Sofi into the experience as much as possible. 

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Sofi’s beginning, five weeks early, was on June 30, 2004 and at a little over five pounds she was about the tiniest, most beautiful creature that I had ever seen.  She was pretty loud, too (and that part hasn’t changed), but she was ours.

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