You all know how much I love our precious Anastasia! When I was growing up, I always wanted a little girl, and I wanted to name her Anastasia! I’ve always loved the name, and not because of the movie! Although I do love the Disney movie too.
When I look at our daughter, I still…it’s hard to believe that she is ours. That I grew this precious baby in my belly. I never thought I would have a child of my own, for multiple reasons. I won’t go into those right now. Maybe in another blog post, we’ll see. But anyway, when we found out we were pregnant, I was excited, scared, nervous, pretty much every emotion that there was, but the good kind of it!
Every time I look at her face, I am just amazed! God is so amazing! That he gave us the “ability” to grow a little human inside of us. It is painful at times, but the pain is worth it in the end. Anastasia is her mommy and daddy’s world! She means the world to us!
I’ll look at her and daddy playing together, he’ll be chasing her around the house and she’ll be giggling and trying to get away, or sometimes she’ll run right to Daddy! It is the cutest things in the world!
When Anna was born, and we were in the hospital for a few days longer than we wanted, when I saw the looks Brandon gave our little girl, it melted my heart. My husband also thought he could never have children, for reasons I won’t mention right now either. When we found out we were pregnant, we proved that wrong! Not necessarily on purpose, but it happened! We were excited though!
He was the proudest daddy in the world! And he has that look even more every day that she grows and gets bigger and smarter! She may squeal super loudly and hurt our ears sometimes, but we don’t love her any less because of it! The times she wants to just sit on our laps and snuggle, those are definitely the times that we are treasuring right now! Because we know she’s not always going to be like that!
She is our little firecracker! She is a ball of energy, and she lights up every room she enters! When I look at her and her big ol’ smile, it makes me smile the biggest smile! I know everyone says to wait to have kids, have some alone time with your husband first. Which I do wish we could have had some time together before but that is totally okay! I wouldn’t change any of it for anything! I can’t remember what it was like before we had Anna! And that’s okay!
She may make it harder to just get up and go somewhere, but that’s okay! We love her so much, we love all the memories that we are making together as a family! She is our gift from God. Our favorite gift that we have ever gotten! We cannot wait to see her grow and learn so much! Although, we also CAN wait for her to grow, because they’re only little for a short time.
I don’t know about anyone else, but this year has FLOWN by! I don’t know if it’s because we have a child now or what, but this year has gone by so fast! I can’t believe it is already October! Soon it will be Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then another year will be gone. The pictures below were from last Christmas! Time flies and she has grown so much since then! Enjoy the time with them!
These are the times that when Anna is playing or sleeping, I will just watch her! Not in a creepy way, either! Moms (and Dads) know what I’m talking about! I will just watch her play with her toys, look at her books, and I will watch her face! I watch her face just glow so bright when her toys makes a sound or she comes to a page in a book, and she smiles so big!
I love having a daughter! Anna is so much fun! She loves our dogs! She will go up to the dogs and pet them then give them hugs and kiss their noses! The smaller one is really hyper, so she doesn’t give her very many hugs because she gets up and runs off! But the bigger one, she’ll stay still mostly, she’s more calm and laid back. Anna is starting to be more interactive with the dogs more, she loves to throw their balls and toys for them to go run and get, although it doesn’t get thrown very far! She loves it and she just squeals with joy! The dogs like it too, because they have someone else to play with now!
Life gets busy sometimes and we don’t always have time to play with Anna or the dogs. But you just gotta make time. Set whatever you’re doing down, and go play with your children! Make those memories! Don’t let your children remember that you were sitting at the computer or playing a game or doing paperwork all the time, and didn’t have time to play with them, or even to help them study for a test or with some homework. Make time for your children. That is what they will remember.
I look at Anna’s face and I can’t help but smile! She is so beautiful, and I’m not saying that because I grew her in my belly! I look at every detail I can! That is also why I’m always taking pictures of her! I do enjoy the moments, too! But I’ll take a few pictures of her playing with toys or playing with daddy, then I’ll join them, or I’ll even just watch them for a little bit. I love watching them play together and giggling together! It makes my heart smile so big!
Don’t take time with your children, your spouse, or anyone, for granted. Make that time with them, make it last as long as possible. You don’t know how long you will have!
Children are a blessing and a gift from God!
Adventures Of Motherhood 