My eyeballs are throbbing, my thoughts are muddled and I am tired. So, quickie post.
Our local hands-on pottery joint made a comfy retreat this morning for the making of some Christmas presents and an escape from cold rains (no really, we’re talking hats and mittens ’round here these days).
The kids took a break to block the doorway with a few nice rounds of Ring-around-the-Rosy.
My favorite piece from today…I love her happy people.
And look who’s standing in therapy today? A little fridge support and her favorite tamborine to hang on to, and she’s good to go. The first thing our therapist asks when he arrives is always, “where’s the tamborine?” It’s the magic toy. She works for it.
Okay…totally rallyin’ to finish this. One eye open now. Before it falls…
I’m excited to be joining Daily Challenge, a program created to encourage you to make small actions to make lasting impact in your health and life. It’s easy, fast and gives you a swift kick in the butt to think a bit more about daily choices. (You can join on Facebook as well).
Today’s challenge came at a good time. I’ve been feeling guilty for some of our eating habits lately, especially when it comes to snacks. A lot of running around has meant a lot of packaged foods. Too much. So today’s challenge made me think.
Share one of your healty treats of the season.
And I don’t think green rice crispy treats qualify. So, we got a little creative in the kitchen, tweaked some recipes and made one up. And Dude, it’s amazing what your kids will eat when it comes in cool shapes.
Behold, the veggie Christmas tree…
modeled by Lainey’s lovely friend, Baylee.
Green peppers, sliced and shaped into tree, cheese trunk, a little ranch dip piped with a Ziplock and tomato ornaments. Voila.
And not to come to a choppy end, but seriously…my one open is slippin. I’m out.
But happy…
Oh, forgot to mention, use code “PINWHEEL15” for 15% all pinwheels on 12/10 at Elizabeth St.
And don’t forget time’s a runnin’ out to order in time for Christmas for both Sticks and Stones and the self esteem Empower necklace from Belkai.
And the blog birthday wishes were lovely. Thank you.
I never thought this would happen to me!! The first one to comment!! Yes!
Oh where did you get nella’s sweet shoes? I need some, my baby girl HATES her chuck taylors!!
Bummed in the frigid north with a cancelled flight holding me here until the morning. Knowing delays and interruptions sometimes can be sweet, I am determined to just find the beauty in it and I am actually enjoying a quiet evening of TV, nice Christmas lights, hot chocolate with Peppermint Schnapps and looking forward to seeing, smelling, savoring my girls…and chilling with the boys too, this weekend. I don’t care if it chilly there, those babies will warm a Poppa’s heart. And a balet recital on Sunday–sweet savory Sunday!! See you in the morning! She stands! She stands! Next, she will walk!
Way to go Nella!! How cute is she?! Isn’t going to paint pottery on cold rainy days the best:)
Woo Hoo, Nella! And, Lainey’s happy people are the best! Hope you get some well deserved rest!
Jill B (Overland Park,KS)
Yay for standing!! She’s rockin’ that tambourine!
Where did you get the skirt Lainey is wearing in these pictures? Your girls have the cutest clothes!
Standing looks good on her! I’ll have to remember your veggies-in-cool-layouts method someday.
AWww. Look at your sweetie standing!
Im totally making that snack for Kaish when he comes home from school tomorrow. My eyes are closing too.
Yay for standing… what a clever girl 🙂
Nella rocks the Stand!
What a creative veggie snack!!! I LOVE that!!!
What a very sweet comment, Rik. Made me smile! Can’t believe Nella stands! Amazing!
Yay Nella!! She looks so cute standing so tall!
OK, truth please? Did they really eat the bell peppers with ranch? LOL My daughter would have eaten the wooden tray! She just now at age 12 1/2 eating salads! She quit eating at 18 months and she ate anything till then.
WTG Nella for standing! :o)
Go Nella, Go Nella, GO GO, Go Nella! I joined the daily challenge… baby weight is holding on for dear life.
Oh my, look at her stand.
Healthy? Outside of the soon-to-be-cookie-baking-binge, we are keeping busy and avoiding snacking at night. Sewing, lots of sewing keeps me away from the kitchen. It wipes me out and gives me a kink in the neck, but still, it works. Cooking lots of broccoli. Eating lots of fresh fruit. Cooking from scratch without using processed anything – oh, it’s so much more work than I want, but it’s all good. Making lots of soup. Yum!!!
Peace out.
Jennifer from Annapolis
Yah Nella! Love those special moments!
GO NELLA! she looks so cute and grown up standing up like that. She’s seems to be saying “oh yeah, i got this, i got my awesome tambourine”! Soon she’ll be tottering around the house before you know it. Not so different from lainey (:
My eating habits haven’t been all that great lately either. it’s mostly a “don’t eat much, but when i do…” type thing. I want to eat healthier, to get in good habits. Your veggie tree looks amazing!
Ok, Nella looks a TON like Lainey in the pic where she’s standing. I always see so much of her daddy in her. I love those “aha! there you are!” moments.
That tree looks delicious!! I JUST made a vow to eat more whole, local, raw foods. It’s just so hard during the holiday season. Love the mug!
RIK – love your words as always. Hmm…eating healthy. Hard for me all the time but more so around holiday! I am trying to eat more veggies and fruit though. Love you
Yaah Hoo!! for Nella!!! She’s a trooper – a gorgeous one too!! 😀
Love the healthy snack – might have to try that for my little miss!
I’ve been reading your blog for a little over a year now and have never commented until now. But I just wanted to say that in the midst of law school exams, seeing Nella stand for the first time really MADE MY DAY! WOO HOO!!! Congrats to you all! 😀
OMG! Nella is such a little Rock Star!!
Love, Lainey’s happy little people with stick legs. They always make me smile.
My absolute favorite gift last year, for Christmas, was my spoon holder that my little nephew, Owen, made for me at the Pottery Hallow. Those places are so amazing! I wish we would have had a place like that when I was a little. I LOVED making pottery. My mom still has a tea set that I made for her in high school. It still sits on the top shelf in her kitchen for all to see.
Good Luck on your daily challenge. I think I will have to pop over and challenge myself.
Yay Nella!! She’ll be running before you know it trying to keep up with her big sister!!
Hopefully that cold ends before I get down there! Nothing like moving 1,381 miles to escape the cold just to have it meet me there… I suppose as long as it doesn’t get down to 6 degrees there I’ll be alright with it!
Have a great weekend with Poppa – and a dance recital?!? I can’t wait to see the pictures!! Good Luck Lainey! You’ll be great!
~Beth
Yeah for Nella!! Especially because she loves the tambourine! It’s good to have another percussionist in the family 🙂
YAY…Nella sweet girl. She wanted that tamborine!!
Pottery places like that are soooo much fun.
I’ve been eating poorly lately too and I can tell. The chipmunk cheeks are a sure sign. My favorite healthy snack is a little gala apple and a piece of string cheese. Simple and so good for ya. Sweet dreams.
Yay, Nella!
Love Lainey’s cup – I’d be a happy recipient if that was my gift 🙂
Go Nella! What a sweet milestone right before Christmas!
I love Nella’s hat with the flower…where can I get one? Also, on a tip from you, I’ve joined the Daily Challenge. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings.
XOXO
i’m diggin the daily challenge!!!! ilove that few minutes i have been taking for myself since i signed up…three days ago:)
gnight!
go nella go!
Yah!!! Nella!
our fav healthy snack is dried fruit. I replaced all pkgd gummis in our house with homemade trail mix of semi swett choc chips, nuts, dried cranberries, and dried apples . YUM
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I simply adore how you dress your girls. They already have such a killer sense of fashion.
Hooray for Nella standing. I know what is like to celebrate the little victories.
Dear Sleepy-head,
Sweet of you to spend a sleepy moment updating us on your lively adventures. I love the happy people too… the crabby ones are WAY less fun!
Sweet dreams.
Love,
Gettin’ Dozy in NE
P.S. My dad, three brothers and my son are headed your direction tonight… I’ll miss my boy but I’m mostly jealous he’s headed to FL from NE IN DECEMBER!!! Where else would a person want to be? I’ll trade your sorta SUN for our BLUSTERY WINTER FOR REALS. K?
My little is about the same age as your little and he is not standing like that yet – GO NELLA!
And more healthy would be good….too much busy and not enough healthy at our home lately. Thanks for the reminder!
-Jenny in Iowa
Way to go Nella!
Love Nella standing… such a strong & beautiful girl… surprising the world again & again. Will check out the daily challenge… have been looking for motivation to get (& stay!) healthier.
Love the Happy People… perfect thing to send me off to sweet sleep.
xo
Kate
Go Nella!
What a gorgeous picture of Nella standing.
xo
wonderful, wonderful and sweet Nella!!!!!!!
Aw yay she’s standing! 🙂
Looks like fun at the pottery place 🙂
and that snack looks yummy
Oh, Kelle, she STANDS!!! That is so wonderful!! It brought happy tears to this mama to see your babe standing 🙂 Yay, Nella Cordelia!! (And beautiful artwork by Lainey! :-))
Go Nella Go! Love Lainey’s happy little person too!
On another note, my mother-in-law lost her mom recently and I want to get her a Christmas gift involving a purple butterfly. Kelle I love your sponsors but didn’t see something like this. I am thinking Christmas ornament, necklace, keychain. Any ideas? Thanks!!
Oh gosh, I wish we had a pottery place like that around here!
Great to see Nella on her feet!!
Yeah……………Nella. You go girl. Kelly, hope you wake up today with extra energy! Susan
i would lend you my eye if you want, because your blogs are amazing. love to you and your family this holiday.
AND A BIG CONGRATS TO NELLA FOR STANDING , A BEAUTIFUL MILESTONE ….
love the doughtys
I love the pic of Nella standing. I am so proud of her- such a sweetie pie!
Totally joining the FB group.
She stands!!!! Wow. already!!!
You go Nella!!
oh kelle! nella stands! yippee!
and that happy face mug.
i need to drink coffee out of something like that daily.
guess what we should do this weekend?
sweet savory Sunday! You Cryderman’s have such a way with adjectives….
We have a weekly challenge on an online forum where we challenge ourselves to make creative “themed” lunches for our kids and I do have to say that I have been able to get my duaghter to try more by doing this.
Love the picture of Nella standing, she is doing so well! My Emma and I are off to paint our Christmas ornaments tonight. This has become a yearly tradition that I hope to continue on.
If only I could reach through the screen and scoop up and squeeze your girls! They are too sweet!
The coupon code has been applied and some Anna Griffin paper pinwheels are coming my way. I’m borrowing your idea and planning my little love’s 1st birthday party around the pinwheel theme. Thanks!
look at the big girl standing up! she is the cutest!
I will check into the daily challenge.. I love the tree.. I would eat that… Have fun at the recital… I hope they allow a few pictures…
Yay, standing!!!!! 🙂 Cute trees, I’m sure my 3 yr old will love that.
And Rik, hot chocolate w/peppermint schnapps? Interesting, interesting…might have to try that out ;D
Nella stood up!! Nella stood up!! WOOOOOO HOOOOOO! Nella Bella, our little standing beauty-doll. Happy times. 😀
Go Nella!! That is fantastic. Love the attachment to the tamborine.
yay for nella! awesome job sweet girl! we need to work on some healthy snacks over here too! i just picked up our pottery we did last week yesterday. hand-printed platters for the grandmothers! so fun:)
Nella standing is the sweetest picture ever!!
Yay Nella!
I just got home from the Ft. Myers area, and was surprised how chilly it was.
I wrote a blog about my favorite retreat in FL-similar to your isle of capri-check it out if you get a chance. 🙂
jennynoonan.blogspot.com
have a great weekend!
Oh my god! The photo of Nella standing just melted my heart!! 🙂
hooray nella!!! 🙂
i love going to the pottery painting place!
God is great!
Great treat idea, thanks!!!!
Yea Nella!!!!
Yee-haw for Nella!!
I signed up for the Daily Challenge…thanks for the idea. I was also thinking we could do better when it comes to snacks in our house!
that picture of Nella standing is SO stinking cute! I just want to squeeze her and love on her!
Okay my favorite healthy snack
1 package of unbaked crescent rolls, open and place on cookie tray and keep the rolls together, do not separate into individual rolls (or you could just use unbaked pizza dough) Bake as directed and when cool, smear whipped creamed cheese all over the top. Chop veggies and spread over the top of the cream cheese. I usually do broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, green peppers and a little bit of onion powder. Refrigerate for an hour and cut into squares. YUM YUM.
Rik –
The HC with the Schnapps. We make a different version thanks to a small bar in Chestertown, MD. A fall drink entitled the “Count Chocula”, which is HC with 1 oz Gosslings dark rum, 1 oz Creme de Caco; and then sometimes we toss in 1 oz of Rumplemint. (excuse all of my spelling errors related to the above alcohol!).
And a fitting drink deserves a fitting way of requesting; we ask for one (even at home) in the Count’s voice “I vood like a Count CHOCULA!” LMAO.
Enjoy your weekend everyone. Linda, congratulations on the new granddaughter. I love her name.
-Jennifer from Annapolis
Kelle Hampton, I love you! I have been looking for the perfect healthy festive treat to serve at a little pre-homecoming party with lots of wine and giddy girls and walla you created it for me! Those trees screamed PERFECT to me! Thanks!
And Go Nella!!! Standing is huge progress! Hopefully furniture walking is in the near future!! She’s always in my prayers!
Aww congrats to Nella for standing!!!!!! 🙂
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Wow… this is my first time commenting.. yay excited.. party on my laptop!
Its so awesome to see Nella walking!!! loving everything especially the joy of everything!!
ps.. gonna try the healthy tree snacks.. wish me luck (not very coordinated in the cooking, and making things look cute part) 🙂
First of all – yay Nella for standing! 🙂
Second of all – your veggie tree looks delish and SO creative. I wonder if that would coerce my 3 year old…..it’s worth a shot!
Sara
Whoo hoo!! Go Nelly!! 🙂
LOVE Lainey girl’s happy people cup. That cup will hold a lot of warmth and cheer 🙂
Congrats to Nella, and I love the “veggie tree”. Great idea!
Yay Nella!! So she will be walking..so much fun! Love the pottery – We love to make our own creations too.
First of all, I love your blog. My husband and I are going to be adopting a child with down syndrome hopefully in the next year or two and when I stumbled upon Nella’s birth story it only reaffirmed to me a desire to love a child like her. Second, where did you get that adorable owl dress she’s wearing in her standing up picture?! I’m an owl freak, and I have a six month old that would look fabulous in it. Thanks! karizielasko at gmail dot com
Happy blog birthday, Kelle. I would have said something on the day, but our internet went wonky and just I turned in a final essay today that ended up being 2000 words over what it was supposed to be. Apparently I had a lot to saw about second sight in the Scottish Highlands. Anyway, thanks for being a place I can come to relax, and enjoy a fellow writer’s words, and a fellow photographer’s captures.
Love Nella standing!! Her face of concentration is beautiful! My littlest had a book called Peek-A-Who that he worked for…it got him to crawl. He still loves that book and he’s almost two! Of course, it’s torn quite to pieces by now.
Great idea on the veggie Christmas tree!
Susan
LOVE to see Nella standing and Lainey having fun with her adorable friends. :))
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Yay Nella!!!!! You rock “The Stand” little girl!
Your girls are so beautiful and sweet, you are very blessed indeed. I know how much I love kissing my little girls faces, with littles like yours I am sure there is lots of mushing going on in your home, too. How do we get anything else done?
Oh, and I am so trying out the veggie Christmas tree. My girls have gotten so picky in the last 2 months (very frustrating because they never were before) and this might just do the trick.
Yea for Nella. It is always heartwarming to see the strides they make and how quick they grow. She is such a doll and will continue to excel.
Kelle~ I almost cried when I saw Nella Bean standing that is sooo awesome!!!! Jana will do anything in Pt if I give her my cell phone. Hey whatever works:) LOVE the Christmas tree ida.
It’s so great to see Nella standing! Go, Nella, go! 🙂
Love how the kids were playing ring-around-the-rosy!
Love your veggie tree idea! And hey, kids aren’t the only ones would wouldn’t try to eat something that looks cool!
Standing at 11 months with an extra special chromosome?! If that’s not ROCKSTAR status, then I don’t know what is! I’m so proud of her!
Tracie
Nella is standing, Nella is standing. She is doing just amazing, Kelle. You should be so proud, as I am sure you are. Seriously, I think she is breaking records, not only stereotypes. Just to give you some reference, my son Jack sat at 10 months, crawled at 12 months, stood at 14 months and walked at 22 months. Nella is one amazing little soul. Good job!
I have never commented on your blog but I am truly smitten by your pictures and writing, both amazing. I love to see the pictures of Nella and Lainey. They are both so beautiful. (:
Ashton
Came across your blog recently and LOVE it – We’ll be having our baby girl with DS soon, and Nella is such a beauty. The pics of her standing today brought a big smile to my face!
Så vakker du er – og for noen nydelige barn. Ser en helt spesiell tilknytning mellom deg og Nella 🙂
Og – du stråler!
Line – norway 😉
i think you might like this song that came on my Pandora today.
“Come Around” by Rosi Golan
Have a lovely weekend!
Abby
Yayyy Nella!!!
Thanks for sharing your healthy snack recipe. I am in need of some of those these days. I have a very picky eater on my hands!
Yeah!
Yeah for Nella standing that is….
Such great strength and effort in that tiny one. Looks like you have a great physical therapist…I have to comment that it looks like he’s male, which is less common, at least around here. My son had a male PT (all other therapists were female) and he was amazing. Just the right combination of firm but playful and made my son work hard without realizing it. I credit him with my son’s ability, at age 4, to keep up with his typical peers and experience life to the fullest.
Go Nella, Go! I love ‘seeing’ her little milestones, everytime I see a picture of that gorgeous smiling face it really does brighten my day.
I love Lainey’s friendly people, you are blessed to have two little darlings!
Hope you get some rest 🙂
This is one of my favorite songs..EVER!! Me LOVE! Please share on secret on your favorite local pottery place that is kid friendly..I’m always afraid to take them in. And my almost 4 year old saw the tree..asked what it was, and said..”I don’t want to eat that, just decorate it”..we’ll be trying for new ideas. Around here..we do a lot of fruit..like..tons. Also graham crackers with flavored cream cheese. I can’t wait to read the other ideas! Happy day..get some rest!
yayyyyyyy Nella bean!!!! That is awesome! And Lainey’s happy people pottery? JUST AS AWESOME! I love stuff like that! Once again, you’ve helped bring some sunshine to my long, long day!
Soon Nella will be joining in on the Ring-Around-The-Rosie circle! Yay!!!
Happy!
TO Jennifer from Annapolis – THANKS for the Congrats! I know, isnt that name just SO cute? And just LOVE how one must ask for your drink in the Count’s voice. TOO funny!
Linda MG –
Realized you probably never saw my congrats to you since I was one of the last to comment on the previous (Blog birthday) post!
Anywhoo, congrats to you! A big year …becoming blog mama and grandmother to a new little one! =)
Jill B (Overland Park, KS)
Yay Nella! I love seeing her smile.
Yay for healthy Christmas snacks. Totally going to share this idea.
Happy, happy, happy Christmas.
Nella, you go girl!!! bless all of you
xoxo
At the age 20 I love how I can be inspired by little nella. She has no idea how lucky she is to be surrounded by the people she will forever call family. Lainey will always be with her and continue to show her strength just as my big sister has always done for me. Kelle you are truly blessed to get to spend every day with your girls. Start buying lottery tickets because you seem to be unbelievably lucky.
Love the Veggie Christmas Tree! ~And how pathetic that I can’t think of any healthy holiday snacks at the moment…just finished baking a cake for my baby girl’s first birthday party this weekend! My mind is on the sweets and joys! Definitely going to check out the daily challenge!
You and your family fill my heart with all kinds of warm-fuzzies!
I’ve been so busy lately, that I haven’t stopped by as often as I’ve wanted to – In the past month, I’ve moved into my little jewel of a condo, newly renovated by the best son-in-law in the world – mine(!), as well as begun a new job – after a whole 6 weeks of retirement. 🙂 Ah well – I never really have known what down-time truly is….and obviously like it that way.
But, the other “obvious” is that I’m not as young as I used to be – and so, each evening I promise my sleepy self that “tomorrow”, I’m going to check out Kelle and the Hamptons. “Tomorrow” has taken about 10 days to get here this time…..but, catching up with the sweetness, genuineness – and life-affirming moments you share, made the wait so worth it!
I loved seeing your adorable little Miss Nella standing up, all strong and proud – but, as joyous as it is, as a Mom, I feel a little melancholy for you too – Your baby is growing up – and of course, that’s what we all want – at the same time as we want them to stay babies for just a little longer. They have their own little ticking time-clocks though – and growing is what they do…, so we rejoice and cheer them on – and feel a little wistfulness, as we watch one stage fade to the next….
Your Lainey girl grows more gorgeous every week – and I love her Happy Face Mug…..Little Designer Girl that she is – maybe you should patent that design on her behalf! 🙂
Thank-you yet again – for sharing and brightening and inspiring – and most of all for welcoming the errant readers back into your ‘small things’ world, when we’ve been distracted for abit!………Rosemary
Oh, Nella!!! Nella, Nella, Nella…I just want to give you big squeezey hugs. You’re so darn irresistible! Does your Mama ever bite you? LOL—-I want to eat my Nora’s cheeks; they look so yummy! Good job, baby girl 🙂
Hey there, JILL B – my blogging friend here! No, I didnt see your Congrats so thanks for re-posting. So thoughtful of you. I always like reading your comments here. You are so cute – yes blog mama and grandma for the third time, indeed! Oh, these are such good times. Hope you and yours are enjoying this wonderful Holiday season! Take care, Linda
I thought you should know..that reading your blog..is me feeding my good wolf!
Pumpkin muffins is my go to healthy food all year round, but especially around the holidays. I can send the recipe if you like! Love the blog. My daughter, Eva, and I look at it every day together.
TO CHRISIN – AMEN TO THAT! Reading this blog is feeding my good wolf too! And to LIGHTKEEPERSDAUGHTER (btw, LOVE that name) – I hear you there! As the number next to my birthday gets bigger, my ‘tomorrows” take longer to get here too!
Just wanted you to know that I cooked your famous pork carnitas this evening, and they were a huge hit in the Brand household. We’ll be making them for years. Thanks for sharing your genius.
Rhonda
http://www.nothingbutreallife.blogspot.com
Kelle,
Thank you for sharing this beautiful blog with all of us. So happy for your little Nella. What an amazing thing to log on and see that beautiful child standing.
Julie
Just found out about your blog and I’M IN LOVE!
I’m seventeen years old, and my dream is to have a family like yours – your daughters are just too cute!
Your firstborn looks so much like you, and Nella is the cutest thing on earth!
Congratulations on the beautiful family 🙂
I always get excited to see see sweet Nella’s accomplishments (crawling…sitting and now standing…WOW). My third child is one month to the day younger than Nella and she is still trying to sit on her own…lol Way to go girl!! Heather from New Brunswick!!
When my little was little I made a GREAT plate at one of those places. I made a reindeer using her foot as the face/head and her hands as the antlers. It is SO precious to me now! Has a big chip out of one side, but I tell her that Santa’s reindeer tried to bite it along with the cookies! LOVE IT! Have a wonderful holiday!
Hope you got some good sleep! Would you mind sharing where you got Nella’s shoes? Precious!
Love your blog Kelle.
What a beautiful family you have.
Go, Nella, go! And I love the “happy” pottery. Warms my heart. I always come here when I need a bit of that… which is pretty regularly!
is that baylee already?? since when has she grown to be a little lady??
Nella, such a sweet little girl standing there by herself. Such a beauitful moment. I read this the other day and started cleaning with your blog open on the computer. 3 hours later, I still had an amazing playlist of happy music going- thanks for the uplifting post and music 🙂
Definitely have to have citrus! Clementines, oranges, grapefruits, you name it. In the winter lose hours of daylight, but it’s nice that you can have fruit that at least reminds you of sunshine. 🙂
Nella, you go girl!
~D
Go Nella Go! Way to stand up baby girl.
Oh I feel like I have to ask permission. Can I totally copy your precious fairie birthday party? My daughter would freak!
I love the happy little people too. Super cute and I think you should copyright them!
Okay, both of your girls are adorable, but the pictures of Nella with her big, happy smiles make me want to take her home with me! I’ve been following you guys for a while, but thought I should make myself known 🙂
Thanks for sharing even though you are tired at times, but your blog is great and I love your photos.
What an adorable group of kids and mamas. It looks like you guys had a lot of fun. I hope everyone’s feeling well and that nobody’s catching what seems to be going around right now.
Yay for Nella standing today! As a peds PT, it’s amazing to be there with a family as a sweet child hits his/her milestones. I bet the angels in heaven were cheering for her!
Kelle — I have only been reading your blog for a month now, but it is truly special. My girlfriends and I are LOVING the Daily Challenge and I wanted to thank you for posting about it! What a fabulous way to spread love and positivity! Goes back to how the internet has changed our lives….for the better 🙂
Keep on writing & posting!!!
-Emily, Baltimore, MD.
I am loving your blog! These photos — wow! What a story they tell. Thank you for sharing 🙂
I am loving your blog! These photos — wow! What a story they tell. Thank you for sharing 🙂
I stumbled across your blog as a friend of mine too has a down syndrome girl and she referred to your birth story in her blog. I am HOOKED. I feel like I know you, like you are a close friend. Your blogs are so deep and touching and your photos are AMAZING! I am definitely a follower now….