*~True Love~*

Happy Valentines Day Friends! :) Yes, I know it was yesterday, but I have some time tonight so I thought I would put up a long overdue new post. 


We had a fun day here at our house! Phil is on nights this month, so he got home just after I got Giuliana up and ready for the day. He brought with him a few surprises for us! :) He got me a gorgeous bouquet of tulips, which I ADORE. If there is a way to my heart with flowers, it's tulips! I love them so much. Phil also picked up flowers for the other little lady in his life, Giuliana. He was so sweet about it. He got her 5 orange gerber daisies. They are beautiful. 


He had me sit her down and then he placed them in front of her. She just looked at them, and then looked at him like, wow, thanks Daddy! It was very sweet. She just gently touched them... bent over and looked in the paper.. It was so sweet. 


I love this. It just melted my heart. I remember when I was pregnant we thought for sure it was a boy. We did all the old wives tales.. and all the little tests you can do yourself to try and predict what it was going to be. EVERYTHING came out boy. Once we had the ultrasound and found out that we were having a girl, we both shocked, and so excited! A boy would have been wonderful, but a girl, HOW FUN! :) Immediately we switched to girl mode and I couldn't help but imagine the future. 


To have a girl, to have Daddy wrapped around her tiny little fingers. I knew there would be immediate head over heels feelings towards Daddy. He's wonderful, after all :). I always wanted a little girl, to feel how I do about Phil. When you see him after a long day , to just be so excited! To run to him and feel the love that just radiates out of him when he hugs you. That love, it's something extraordinary. I feel it daily and I know for a fact she does!


Usually in the morning before he has been getting home from work, I'll go in and get her, change her diaper and then bring her back to our bed for her morning bottle. Usually just after we finish the bottle, Daddy gets home!! :) II can hear the garage open from our room, so when I do, I immediately go into "Daddy! Daddy's home!!" mode. I usually do it in a whispering voice. She starts looking around, and saying "Da", "Dadda" (sometimes in a whisper voice too, but SO excited sounding). We hear him grab a bite to eat and then start down the hallway. It's so cute watching her because by now she knows what it sounds like when he walks down the hallway and she looks toward the door. As soon as she sees him she completely lights up! All smiles, and usually starts trying to move all over the bed in her "I need to sit up, I need to dance, I need to be goofy" mode! :) It's adorable. OR she starts squealing, which she has been doing lately! :)


Either way, or however the details fall, she is always so excited to see her Daddy. The man who loves her to pieces! The man who is equally excited to see her as he scoops her up and does an airplane with her and attacks her with kisses.


She is fortunate. I am fortunate. We are blessed. This Valentines Day, I just want to say that I have the best hubby ever. He is such a hard worker, supporter, dreamer, he's funny, loving, caring, SO patient, smart.... oh lanta, I could go on and on at the risk of sounding so cheesy, but he really is all those things. PLUS, he's the greatest Dad in the world. He loves that little nugget with everything he is. 


Which brings me to another reason I wanted to do this post.. I have been falling behind in my picture every week project. I've been really busy taking pictures that last couple days, so I thought I would post one that I just love. The theme this next week is True Love.  I think this picture depicts true love at the core. A father's love for his daughter. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentines Day with your lovelies! I know I did!


*~Peace, Love, and More Love~*

*~Holding Momma~*

Thought I would take a little bit tonight to write about something that touches my heart, each and every night.

Every night when we do our bedtime routine Giuliana does something so sweet and makes every moment of the day worth it.

We get ready for bed, read a story or two, and then she has a bottle before turning off the lights and tucking her into bed. She usually always reaches for something to rub on her left eye while she has the bottle, because that makes her sleepy. The other hand is usually either holding my hand somewhere if not, the bottle. She drinks it slowly, seeming to soak up all that time with Mommy at the end of the day.. :)

We sit and rock and rock... I love just staring at her while she lays there. I always wonder what is she thinking.

RIGHT as she gets done with her bottle she leans her head over and rests it on my chest for a second.. and then what she does next always melts my heart.. night after night..

I slowly pick her up, almost sliding her from my chest to my shoulder without losing contact.. and she rests her head on my shoulder.. so sweetly, she just lays there.

I imagine she is thanking me for everything we do during the day.. as if she is saying, Thanks Momma, your the best. Thank you for playing with me today, feeding me, wiping my face that was covered with that yummy yogurt you gave me.. changing me.. Thank you Momma. I love you.

She lays there long enough for me to imagine all of these things and then most of the time pops up and nuzzles into my face. :) We stand up.. walk over to the crib.. and she lays back down on my shoulder.

I stand there and rock her back and forth.. loving EVERY moment, and then she looks at her bed. I'm sure these looks aren't always ooh bedtime!! Yay! ha! and they haven't always been lately, but sometimes, like tonight, I lay her down, she flips over to her belly, I cover her up, and she reaches back with her hands to grab her blanket (she likes it tucked under shoulders like a little burrito) :).

It's all these little moments that make every single moment of being a Momma worth it. I think every Momma has these moments. You spend all day pouring yourself out for your child(ren) and then you have these special times when it feels like they are turning around and holding you.. Making sure you know that you are loved.

I am head over heels in love with my little Valentine! She makes me so proud to call myself her Momma!

I love you Peanut! <3