friends

i am emerging from my little cocoon today to post a sweet one and to join in steady mom's 30 minute blog challenge. this post took less than 15 minutes, the longest part of which was searching for the first (oldest) photo on an external hard drive.

i will be back tomorrow, as well, for corner view!

finnian and lillian, march 2008

meet lily. you have met lily through my words many times, but here she is in all her cuteness. lily is little sister to julia, the daughters of our friends liz and josh, whom we knew vaguely for years, but have been friends with since bella and julia were newborns. although julia and bella are dear friends, there is something about the friendship between lily and finn (or as lily currently calls him "bin luca" - for finnian luca) that is especially sweet and has always been so. they have the kind of friendship that always tugs my mamma heart.

finn and lily, march 2009

i always feel a bit cruel when we have to say good bye (finn has a tendency to wail "wiwy! wiwy" for quite some time after) and i feel as though i have an ace in my pocket when i can get finn to do something simply by saying "if you do this, we get to go see lily!" that always stops him in his tracks, he pauses, says "wiwy? otay," and does it.

they might just be "babies," but we should all be so lucky to have such a treasured friendship.

finn and lily, september 2009
(and for those who worry about such things, those cups are BPA/phthalate free and are far preferred by finn than his klean kanteen!)