Wednesday, December 07, 2011

2005 and 2011

Oh, my heart.

I know that children are supposed to grow. For goodness sake, I've written a dozen columns (like this one) on the bittersweetness of our babies growing into the independent people we want them to be.

And yet my heart still aches to stare at these photos, separated by six years filled with intermingled joy and sorrow that was inconceivable way back in 2005.

(Check out 2008 here. And visit the Damm house for the complete collection, dating to 2001, all with the same wonderful Santa.) 
Cooper, age 4; Santa, timeless; Katie, 6 months
Cooper, 11; Santa, just the same; Katie, 6

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