Dear Chloe: Little Helper

Dear Chloe,

It's funny how the littlest things in life can create the most fondest memories, like washing a few dishes with you. You are such a wonderful helper too, always wanting to help me empty the dishwasher, or put away your toys, and you love to help Grandma feed Ozzy. The amazing thing is, is we didn't even teach you how to do these things, your just so observant and eager to learn and explore and help those around you. Your love and kindness is an inspiration my little one. Thank you for filling my life with so much beauty and happiness. 

You are my greatest treasure.

Love always and forever,
Mama

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" A portrait of my child, once a week, every week in 2013. "

Chloe, my almost 19 month old toddler taking a break from playing to lay in my arms and nurse. I truly cherish these sweet moments with her, as I know one day they will come to an end.

* Linking up with the lovely Jodi for The 52 Project.

Currently

I think it is just the sweetest thing when Chloe wants to sleep with her baby doll, that little girl sure knows how to melt my heart.

Loving: My new contacts! This is the first time I have worn contacts in over two years and it feels so good not to have to wear my glasses all the time now. I love it!

Watching: Catfish the tv show, Teen Mom, The King of Queens, and I cant believe I'm admitting this but I watched the first episode of the new season of The Bachelor.... and I kinda really liked it!

Listening to: Lots of Led Zeppelin, Beach House and Lana Del Rey these days.

Thinking about: Money, jobs, our future, finding a place of our own, weaning, making some big changes to my diet. As you can see I have a lot on my mind lately. I think the biggest things on my mind though are money, finding a place of our own to live, and starting the process of weaning Chloe, which I will write more about in a separate post.

Looking forward to: Taking Chloe to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. It's been too long since we've had an adventurous day as a family.

Making me happy: My little family!

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" A portrait of my little one, once a week, every week, in 2013 "

Chloe, my adventurous girl playing outside with her Daddy and I in the cool winter air. Everyday she is blossoming more and more into a beautiful little girl, I just cant believe how fast she's grown!

 Excited to be linking up with Jodi and lots of other lovely blogs today for the 52 project. 

The First Day Of Winter

Today is officially the first day of winter, and what a wonderful surprise it was to wake up this morning to see our neighborhood covered in a blanket of snow. It's finally starting to feel like Christmas is near! Happy Friday, hope everyone has a wonderful weekend ahead of them.

A Picture With Santa, 2012

Today we took Chloe to Woodfield mall to get her picture taken with Santa Claus. We waited in line for over two hours and as you can imagine it was no easy task keeping Chloe entertained for that long. In my eyes though, to have this picture, this memory to keep forever and ever made it all so worth it in the end! 

Chloe did wonderful with Santa too. She was very fascinated with him but a little too scared to sit on his lap so Santa had the brilliant idea to drape a red piece of cloth over Mike's legs and have Chloe sit on his lap and the photographer would simply just crop Mike out of the picture. For the most part I'd say it worked out really well.