Happy New Year!

My babies, It's 2013 and we have a lot to smile about.

Julia, you're 12 weeks old, and already so responsive. I can make you smile just by smiling at you!

Aidan, you continue to amaze and impress us. I love it when you say "Daddy, Let's play! Playtime!" It's almost heart breaking when you say that right before bed. But, there's a whole new year of play times ahead of us.

You're getting better at going pee pee and poo poo on the potty, and collected enough stickers on your sticker chart to get to see a BIG movie. You offered some insightful comments loudly through out the movie, explaining it to us ("Sparky, night night"...sparky was actually dead..but he came back. The movie was "Frankenweenie"). But, the look of amazement on your face when we sat down in the theater (now your 4th or 5th time at the big movies) was pure gold.

If only you knew that that's how your Mother and I look at you sometimes. Pure awe and amazement.

In fact, that's how we feel about both of you, Julia and Aidan. We are constantly amazed that we made you...that you are from us, but already so different from us. So new and awesome and unique in this world.

And that's what a New Year is all about, I guess.

But, with amazing kiddos like the both of you, every day is New Year's Day.

So smile, kids! It's 2013, and we have a whole new chapter in our adventure today. And I won't make you wear these hats again...until next year.