A couple of days ago, you may have seen that I posted a side-by-side picture of all five kids as babies! I tried to get them all around the same ago but was limited with what I had in front of me, so while it wasn’t perfect, it was close. Remember?
In order, it goes Dekker, Solomon, Laela, Waverly, and Rowan.
Did you get it right?
I quite enjoyed people’s guesses, both online and in person. Some did way better than I expected, and some bombed HARD. I thought it was worth noting that the kids aced it. Ro mixed it up a bit, but Dekker and Laela crushed the challenge. Dekker was very matter of fact about it, as usual, and announced “Well that wasn’t even hard…” The only mistake that was made pretty consistently across the board, believe it or not, was Wavy and Ro! I thought Wavy’s hair was a dead giveaway, but I guess the other similarities overshadowed that one detail! I get it, though. They look SO similar in ALL the other ways! Here is just Wavy and Ro.
I think Waverly looks MUCH more feminine, with her face shape, but those lips just get me! I LOVE those lips!!
Another very important picture needed to happen, and as usual, ALL credit goes to my girl Cher! She came over and graciously piled all the kids together in their jammies on my couch for their first official kid picture! And guys, it was AMAZING!!!
Aaaaand because they’re kids…
They did SO well, and Dekker was SO careful to hold her well, even when he was being silly.
I am so thrilled. Look at this beautiful family we’ve been given. I assure you, I do not take them for granted. I am consistently in awe of these gifts, and the honour it is to be able to parent them and hopefully raise them to be TOTALLY AMAZING HUMAN BEINGS! I’m SO thankful God is on our side and has given us this responsibility, and I trust He won’t let us mess it up too badly…
There were so many other beautiful pictures from this shoot but seriously, I have to parcel them out, haha! Can’t give away EVERYTHING on one post!!
Ok fine, just one more thing. For the first time, Rowan asked to hold Waverly. He was SO in love in that moment, I can’t believe Cher was there to capture it!
Ugh. Its like a punch to the heart every. Single. Time. I look at them. In a good way.
I am so anticipating more pictures of these five beautiful people over the coming weeks, months and years 🧡 💗 💚 💙 💜