Stills: Home Sweet Home

"There's no place like Home"

1. Bossy Pants

2. Superstar

3. Mamas Baby

4. BBQ and Cutie Pie

5. Gone Fishin'

6. Sweet Sunshine

7. Puppy Love

8. Her favorite outfit

9. Racing Cousins

10. The Zoo Navigator

11. Star of the season

12. City fun

13. Fall into Autumn

14. First hail of the year

15. Hidden Flora

16. Home Sweet Home

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"A portrait of my daughter once a week, every week in 2014" 

Lottie Cakes: Autumn in Ohio, it doesn't get anymore beautiful than this. The trees are turning magical shades of gold and amber and the weather is the perfect temperature. It's harvest season so there is a constant supply of festivals and fairs and fun to be had. There is pumpkin flavored EVERYTHING from coffees to pies to jams and cheeses to just about anything else you can imagine. In two days time we pack up to leave on our next adventure and while my heart is heavy leaving, the next leg is going to be an exciting end to 4 months of traveling and family time!

Next Stop ... Peru!!

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"A portrait of my daughter once a week, every week in 2014"

Lottie Cakes:  ...Annnnd you're a big girl. Your chubby tummy and squishy little thighs have been replaced with a scrawny torso and knobby knees. You want to do everything yourself and refuse any help and you already know everything already - how did this happen so very fast?! Is two the new teenager? 

Luckily for me you still fit snuggly on my back on the way to the park, tucked your ergo, with your fingers playing in my hair as we chat away about whatever your imagination brings us that day (or I would be one sad mama). And luckier yet, I can still steal the occasional kiss and bedtime is reserved strictly for us and our cuddles and made up stories in the dark.

Goodbye baby, Hello my beautiful little girl. 

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"A portrait of my daughter once a week, every week in 2014"

Lottie Cakes: Making chocolate chip pancakes at your (great) Grandmas. Your smile says it all!

Cousins.

Reunited and it feels so good!

Tiny friends since day one. Seeing you two together cracks me up, swells my heart and makes me realize how lucky you are to be only two months apart and so close, even though most of the time you are physically so far away.  I love you small ladies, may your days always be as carefree as these ones we are sharing now, with the wind in our hair, the sun on our faces and the earth beneath our bare feet.

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"A Portrait of my daughter once a week, every week in 2014"

Lottie Cakes: ... And were officially home! After 14 hours on the Greyhound we are tucked away in the last days of summertime with our family. It's been so nice seeing you experience childhood as I knew it, barefoot and fancy free. Whole afternoons of entertainment can come from the end of a hose,  grass in between our toes and sticky chins from popsicles in the sunshine. We've had corn on the cob for every dinner grilled straight on the bbq and fresh fish caught from your daddy just hours before. 

After almost a year since seeing everyone you got off the bus and ran straight into your grandmas arms, giving them big kisses and excited giggles. Taking your cousins hand you two led each other down the street like you saw each other every day and you knew your grandpas house right away. When we reached the countryside you ran into your great-grandpas office knowing exactly where to find him for a cuddle.
It goes to show love remembers. 

Linking up with: Practising Simplicity and Living Arrows.